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You can use the procedure described in Exercise #1 of Chapter 15 to obtain the IP address of your computer.
In class B IP address format, 14 bits are used for network ID and 16 bits for host ID. Hence, 214 networks can be addressed, and each network can have 216 hosts.
In class C IP address format, 24 bits are used for network ID and 8 bits for host ID. Hence, 224 networks can be addressed and in each network 28 hosts.
The maximum number of addresses supported by IP Version 6 is 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456.
You can obtain the RFC from the site http://www.ietf.org.
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