Exploring the structure of IPv4 and IPv6

As an aspiring network professional, it’s important to understand the structure of both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and how they differ from each other. In this section, you will learn how to convert IPv4 addresses from binary into decimal and vice versa, and explore various address types and their use cases on a network.

Fundamentals of IPv4

Working with computers and servers is quite fascinating for many people as the age of technology is ever-growing and continuously evolving in so many ways. When working with computers or even an IoT device such as a smartphone, there’s an operating system that controls the hardware components and allows us to leverage the computing power from the hardware to perform tasks and perform calculations. As a user, operating systems are very well polished to provide us with an amazing experience without having to understand the low-level programming language or worry about interpreting the electrical...