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RouteFinder RF500S User Guide
IP addresses at random as long as each one is unique. However, connecting a private network to the
Internet requires using registered IP addresses to avoid duplication.
The four groups of numbers (octets) are used to identify a particular network and host on that network.
The InterNIC assigns Internet addresses as Class A, Class B, or Class C. Class A supports 16
million hosts on each of 127 networks. Class B supports 65,000 hosts on each of 16,000 networks.
Class C supports 254 hosts on each of 2 million networks. Due to the large increase in access to the
Internet, new classless schemes are gradually replacing the system based on classes.
U
UDP (User Datagram Protocol)
An Internet Standard transport layer protocol. It is a connectionless protocol that adds a level of
reliability and multiplexing to IP.