Special Addresses

• All 0’s in host part: Represents Network

  • e.g. 193.0.0.0/24
  • e.g. 138.37.128.0/17

• All 1’s in host part: Broadcast

  • e.g. 137.156.255.255 (137.156.0.0/16)
  • e.g. 134.132.100.255 (134.132.100.0/24)
  • e.g. 190.0.127.255 (190.0.0.0/17)

• 127.0.0.0/8: Loopback address (127.0.0.1)

• 0.0.0.0: Various special purposes

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