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- Address Mappings
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- Information Sciences Institute
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- J. Postel
- IEN 91 ISI
- 2 May 1979
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- ADDRESS MAPPINGS
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- Internet Address
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- This memo describes the relationship between address fields used in
- the Internet Protocol (IN) [1] and several specific networks.
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- An internet address is a 32 bit quantity, divided into an 8 bit
- network number and a 24 bit local address as shown below.
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- +--------+--------+--------+--------+
- ! Net ! Local Address !
- +--------+--------+--------+--------+
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- The local address carries information to address a host in the
- network identified by the network number. Since each network has a
- particular address format and length, the following section describes
- the mapping between internet local addresses and the actual address
- format used in the particular network.
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- Internet to Local Net Address Mappings
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- The following transformations are used to convert internet addresses
- to local net addresses and vice versa:
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- ARPANET
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- The ARPANET (with 96 bit leaders) has 24 bit addresses. The 24
- bits are assigned to host, logical host, and IMP fields as
- illustrated below. These 24 bit addresses are used directly
- for the 24 bit local address of the internet address.
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- The network number of the ARPANET is 10.
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- +--------+--------+--------+
- ! HOST ! LH ! IMP !
- +--------+--------+--------+
- 8 8 8
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- SATNET
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- The Atlantic Satellite Packet Network has 16 bit addresses for
- hosts. These addresses may be assigned independent of location
- (i.e., ground station). It is also possible to assign several
- addresses to one physical host, so the addresses are logical
- addresses. The 16 bit SATNET address is located in the 24 bit
- internet local address as shown below.
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- The network number of the SATNET is 4.
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- +--------+----------------+
- ! ZERO ! HOST !
- +--------+----------------+
- 8 16
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- PRNET
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- The Packet Radio networks use 16 bit addresses. These are
- independent of location (indeed the hosts may be mobile). The
- 16 bit PRNET addresses are located in the 24 bit internet local
- address as shown below.
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- The network numbers of the PRNETs are:
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- BBN-PR 1
- SF-PR-1 2
- SILL-PR 5
- SF-PR-2 6
- BRAGG-PR 9
- DC-PR 20
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- +--------+----------------+
- ! ZERO ! HOST !
- +--------+----------------+
- 8 16
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- LCSNET
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- The LCS NET at MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science uses 32
- bit addresses of several formats. Please see [2] for more
- details. The most common format locates the low order 24 bits
- of the 32 bit LCS NET address in the 24 bit internet local
- address, as shown below.
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- The network number of the LCS NET is 18.
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- +--------+--------+--------+
- ! SUB !RESERVED! HOST !
- ! NET ! ! !
- +--------+--------+--------+
- 8 8 8
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- EDN
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- The Experimental Data Network at the Defense Communication
- Engineering Center (DCEC) uses the old 1822 32 bit leader, and
- so has 8 bit addresses. These 8 bit EDN addresses are located
- in the 24 bit internet local address as shown below.
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- The network number of the EDN is 21.
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- +------+--+----------+------+
- ! ! H! ! !
- ! ZERO ! O! ZERO ! IMP !
- ! ! S! ! !
- ! ! T! ! !
- +------+--+----------+------+
- 6 2 10 6
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- [1] Jonathan B. Postel, "Internetwork Datagram Protocol - Version
- 4," Information Sciences Institute, IEN 80, February 1979.
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- [2] Noel Chiappa, David Clark, David Reed, "LCS Net Address
- Format," M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer Science Network
- Implementation, Note No.5, IEN 82, February 1979.
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