Ip Address Assignment; Subnets; Table 5: Private Ip Address Ranges - Hitron CDA-RES User Manual

2.2.2

IP Address Assignment

IP addresses can come from three places:
The Internet Assigned Numbers Agency (IANA)
Your Internet Service Provider
You (or your network devices)
IANA is responsible for IP address allocation on a global scale, and your ISP assigns
IP addresses to its customers. You should never attempt to define your own IP
addresses on a public network, but you are free to do so on a private network.
In the case of the CDA-RES:
The public network (Wide Area Network or WAN) is the link between the cable
connector and your Internet Service Provider. Your CDA-RES's IP address on
this network is assigned by your service provider.
The private network is your Local Area Network (LAN), if enabled. You are free
to assign IP addresses to computers on the LAN manually, or to allow the CDA-
RES to assign them automatically via DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration
Protocol). IANA has reserved the following blocks of IP addresses to be used for
private networks only:
Table 5: Private IP Address Ranges
FROM...
10.0.0.0
172.16.0.0
192.168.0.0
If you assign addresses manually, they must be within the CDA-RES's LAN
subnet.
2.2.3

Subnets

A subnet (short for sub-network) is, as the name suggests, a separate section of a
network, distinct from the main network of which it is a part. A subnet may contain all
of the computers at one corporate local office, for example, while the main network
includes several offices.
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10.255.255.255
172.31.255.255
192.168.255.255
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