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IPv4 Standard Reserved Addresses
IPv4 Standard Reserved Addresses
Updated over a year ago

Network Address

  • Identifier of the subnet (with subnet notation)

  • Always the very first address of the range

  • 192.168.0.0/28  network range is 192.168.0.0 – 192.168.0.15

  • 192.168.0.0/24  network range is 192.168.0.0 – 192.168.0.255

  • 192.168.0.0/22  network range is 192.168.0.0 – 192.168.3.255

Broadcast Address

  • Address that any device can send to in order to communicate to all devices on network

  • Always the very last address of the range (e.g. 192.168.0.255)

  • Always at lowest QoS priority

Gateway

  • Address of the device to route traffic to other networks

  • By convention, the first or last usable address of the range (e.g. 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.0.254)

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