•Network ID cannot be 127
–127 is reserved for loop-back diagnostics
–Ping 127.0.0.1 to test protocol installation
•Network ID cannot be all 1s or all 0s
–All 1s indicates “Broadcast”
–All 0s indicates “Any Address”
•Host IDs cannot be all 1s or all 0s
–All 1s indicates “Network Broadcast”
–All 0s indicates “The network only…”
•Private IP address (Private Internets)
–Used for internal IP addressing
–Will never be used on internet
– 10.0.0.0 – 10.255.255.255
– 172.16.0.0 – 172.31.255.255
–192.168.0.0 – 192.168.255.255
•Class D Multicast
–224 – 239
•Class E Experimental or Scientific purposes
–240 - 247