Title: Assignment 2 - IP Addressing Public vs. Private
Course: KVCC CPT207 > Section: Assignments

In class we discussed the difference between public vs. private addressing in the world of IPV4. Your assignment is to explain what each item means and why it is important to the field of networking. We will be doing more work on this however the foundation is established here and being able to break things down and explain them will lead to a higher level of understanding. As part of your analysis you want to answer the following questions:

1.      What is the difference between public vs. private addresses?

2.      Why is it necessary to have the two different systems?

3.      What enables private addressing to be possible?

4.      What would happen if we did not have private addressing?

5.      How are the two styles of addressing organized? IE what are the ranges for both?

6.      If you are running a small network at home what is the IP address range that you are using? How about work?

7.      Around how many devices would you estimate you have on your home network? How about your work network?

8.      Keeping these devices in mind if we had not used private addressing how quickly would you have estimated would we have exhausted the roughly 4.3 Billion possible addresses?

9.      In your opinion was it a good idea to rely on private addressing so long when we were just extending an inevitable conclusion of having to switch to something that supports more address space? Why/Why not?

10.  If you were managing an IT department how much discussion or examination would you place towards switching to IPV6. Remember V4 and V6 are not compatible? Why?

As with most of these assignments I would recommend you give your written work to someone else and see if it fully explains this topic and if not take their feedback and use it to make your work better.

Attached Files: | - KVCC CPT207_NetworkDesign_Mgmt_Assignment 2.pdf