Question

A 4 byte IP address consists of __________

(a) only network address

(b) only host address

(c) network address & host address

(d) network address & MAC address

This question was posed to me during an interview.

I would like to ask this question from Network Layer topic in portion OSI Model of Computer Network

Answer 1

Correct answer is (c) network address & host address

Easy explanation: An ip address which is 32 bits long, that means it is of 4 bytes and is composed of a network and host portion and it depends on address class. The size of the host address and network address depends upon the class of the address in classful IP addressing.