1 K. Salah Module 5.1: Internet Protocol TCP/IP Suite IP Addressing ARP RARP DHCP

2 K. Salah Some Protocols in TCP/IP Suite

3 K. Salah Address Types

4 K. Salah Address Relations and Encapsulation

5 K. Salah IP Addressing IP address is 32 bits Originally had 2 level of hierarchy: network ID and host ID The network ID is assigned by the Internet Network Information Center (InterNIC). Routers use only network ID Five classes of IP –Identify class by looking at the first byte  gives A, gives B, and 192 to 223 gives C –A gives 126 networks with 16 million hosts –B gives 16,382 networks with 64k hosts –C gives 2 million networks with 254 hosts

6 K. Salah IP Addressing (Cont.) IP addresses are written in dotted-decimal notations Subnetting –Calss B address can support hosts! Hard to manage on a single network. –Adds another hierarchical level called the “subnet”. –Every host has its own IP address and its subnet mask. Hence, this host can determine, if a destination IP address is:  On its own subnet  On different subnet, but same own network  On different network

7 K. Salah IP Addressing (Cont.)

8 K. Salah Special Addresses There are several IP addresses that are reserved for special purposes and are not available for assignment for hosts. Any address with a first octet value of 127 is a loopback address. A loopback address is used by a host to communicate with itself through TCP/IP. It is also used for testing and diagnostics.

9 K. Salah Special Addresses (cont.) 255 in either the host id or the network id designates a broadcast. –A message sent to is broadcast to every host on the local network. A message sent to is broadcast for every host on network in both host id and network id can only appear as a source address in BOOTP protocol in bootstrapping when host is determining its own address. Address Allocation for Private Intranets: –10 A single Class A network. – through contiguous class B network – through contiguous Class C networks. –Any organization can use any address in these ranges without reference to any other organization. –Routers in networks do not use private addresses, e.g. ISP. Routers quietly discard all routing information regarding these addresses. –Hosts having only a private IP address do not have IP layer connectivity to the Internet. They have to go through NAT gateway.

10 K. Salah ARP How does a machine map an IP address to its Data Link layer (hardware or MAC) address? This is needed by the source host (A) who needs to send an IP packet to another host (B) – if B is on same IP network as A, address frame to B – if B on a separate network, address frame to a router TCP/IP solution: Address Resolution Protocol (ARP). See next figure. ARP cache or table is used by hosts to avoid sending ARP request every time. ARP table entries age after a certain time (30 seconds).

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12 K. Salah RARP How does a diskless machine (X terminal) determine its IP address? When bootstrap code starts execution on a diskless machine, it must use the network to contact a server to obtain the machine’s IP address Usually, a machine’s IP address is kept on disk where OS finds it at startup RARP is the protocol used to solve the reverse problem solved by ARP –Given a physical address, get the corresponding IP address The RARP server must be located on the same physical network as the host.

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14 K. Salah Encapsulation of ARP and RARP messages in Ethernet frames Note: The types above are unique. The length field is constant which is 2 bytes. The value of both types are more than 1500 bytes.

15 K. Salah BOOTP and DHCP A host requires three elements to connect to the Internet: –IP address –subnet mask –nearby router BOOTP (Bootstrap Protocol) provided such information to hosts. DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) builds on the capability of BOOTP. DHCP is widely used because it provides a mechanism for assigning temporary IP addresses to hosts. ISP uses DHCP to maximize the usage of their limited IP address space. Typical messages used by DHCP: –DHCP Discover – broadcast initiated by host –DHCP Offer – reply by DHCP server(s) offering service to host –DHCP request – used by host to request info from a particular server. –DHCP ACK – reply by the selected server to host.

16 K. Salah Passing of IP packet.