[aclug-L] Re: IP address question

[Steven Saner <ssaner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hmmm... Well I suppose this depends on your definition of
routable. RFC1918 (private) addresses are perfectly routable, you just
shouldn't route them outside of your network. You should probably
exclude class D and E networks. Class D addresses are for multicast
and they begin with 224 to 239. Class E addresses are for
experimentation purposes. They begin with 240 to 255.


On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 10:11:14AM -0600, Jonathan Hall wrote:
> Well, I got a few replies in responce to my question, "How many _routeable_
> IP addresses have exactly 12 digits?"  I think one was correct (I can't find
> it right now).  That person doesn't live in Kansas any more, though, so I
> guess that relieves us from furnishing a prize?  :-)
> 
> Here's the answer as I've figured it... someone tell me if I'm wrong or
> overlooking something:
> 
> 573452724
> 
> This is how I figured it:
> 
> Normal 32-bit IP space contains 4294967296 IP addresses,
> 0.0.0.0 - 255.255.255.255.  This number can be found by taking 256^4; 256
> possible numbers for each of 4 locations.
> 
> To get 12 digits in an IP address, each of the 4 numbers must have 3 digits. 
> This means that there are only 155 possibilities for each number (100
> through 255).  So, we can take 155^4 (155 possibilities in each of 4
> locations) and come up with 577200625 possible IP addresses--that's only
> 13.4% of the original IP space.
> 
> Not all of these 570 million IP addresses are routeable, though.
> 
> There are three subnets that are deemed 'non-routable' and for use in
> private networks only:
> 
> 10.0.0.0/255.0.0.0
> 192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0
> 172.16.0.0/255.255.240.0
> 
> So, we need to remove these three subnets from our calculations.  Only one
> of these (192.168.0.0) even needs to be considered, though, b/c theother two
> have numbers with less than 3 digits.  In the 192.168.0.0 subnet, we have
> 155^2 or 24025 hosts with 12 digits, so we subtract that from 577200625 for
> 577176600.
> 
> Also, 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 is private and non-routable.  Here we have 155^3
> or 3723875 12-digit IPs we must discount leaving us with 573452725.
> 
> Then, for my final answer I subtracted one more for 255.255.255.255, and
> get... 573452724
> 
> So the answer is: 155^4 - 155^3 - 155^3 - 1 = 573452724
> 
> Did I miss anything?  :-)
> 
> 
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