Network address
Encyclopedia
Network address may refer to:
- Base addressBase addressIn computing, a base address is an address serving as a reference point for other addresses.In computers using relative addressing scheme, to obtain an absolute address, the relevant base address is taken and offset is added to it....
- Classful address
- IP addressIP addressAn Internet Protocol address is a numerical label assigned to each device participating in a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication. An IP address serves two principal functions: host or network interface identification and location addressing...
- IPXIPXInternetwork Packet Exchange is the OSI-model Network layer protocol in the IPX/SPX protocol stack.The IPX/SPXM protocol stack is supported by Novell's NetWare network operating system. Because of Netware's popularity through the late 1980s into the mid 1990s, IPX became a popular internetworking...
address - Logical addressLogical addressIn computing, a logical address is the address at which an item appears to reside from the perspective of an executing application program....
- Network layerNetwork layerThe network layer is layer 3 of the seven-layer OSI model of computer networking.The network layer is responsible for packet forwarding including routing through intermediate routers, whereas the data link layer is responsible for media access control, flow control and error checking.The network...
address, - X.25X.25X.25 is an ITU-T standard protocol suite for packet switched wide area network communication. An X.25 WAN consists of packet-switching exchange nodes as the networking hardware, and leased lines, Plain old telephone service connections or ISDN connections as physical links...
/X.21X.21X.21 is an interface specification for differential communications introduced in the mid 1970s by the ITU-T. X.21 was first introduced as a means to provide a digital signaling interface for telecommunications between carriers and customers' equipment...
address - MAC addressMAC addressA Media Access Control address is a unique identifier assigned to network interfaces for communications on the physical network segment. MAC addresses are used for numerous network technologies and most IEEE 802 network technologies, including Ethernet...
See also
- Autonomous system (Internet)Autonomous system (Internet)Within the Internet, an Autonomous System is a collection of connected Internet Protocol routing prefixes under the control of one or more network operators that presents a common, clearly defined routing policy to the Internet....
- Host addressHost addressThe host address, or the host ID portion of an IP address, is the portion of the address used to identify hosts on the network...
- Link layerLink LayerIn computer networking, the link layer is the lowest layer in the Internet Protocol Suite , the networking architecture of the Internet . It is the group of methods or protocols that only operate on a host's link...
- Subnet mask