Infobox IPv4
Private addresses
Private network addresses are not allocated to any specific organization. The following IPv4 address ranges are free of use (RFC 1597)
Shared addresses
Dedicated space for carrier-grade NAT deployment (RFC 6598)
Link Local addresses
Using Zeroconf or Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA), end devices can automatically use an IP address from this range (RFC 5735)
Comparison table network sizes
Private network addresses are not allocated to any specific organization. The following IPv4 address ranges are free of use (RFC 1597)
Network | From | To | Size | Info |
---|---|---|---|---|
10.0.0.0/8 | 10.0.0.0 | 10.255.255.255 | 16.777.216 | single class |
172.16.0.0/12 | 172.16.0.0 | 172.31.255.255 | 1.048.576 | 16 contiguous class B |
192.168.0.0/16 | 192.168.0.0 | 192.168.255.255 | 65.536 | 256 contiguous class C |
Shared addresses
Dedicated space for carrier-grade NAT deployment (RFC 6598)
Network | From | To | Size |
---|---|---|---|
100.64.0.0/10 | 100.64.0.0 | 169.254.255.255 | 4.194.304 |
Link Local addresses
Using Zeroconf or Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA), end devices can automatically use an IP address from this range (RFC 5735)
Network | From | To | Size |
---|---|---|---|
169.254.0.0/16 | 169.254.0.0 | 169.254.255.255 | 65.536 |
Comparison table network sizes
CIDR | Mask | Hex | Bin |
---|---|---|---|
1 | 128.0.0.0 | 80000000 | 10000000000000000000000000000000 |
2 | 192.0.0.0 | C0000000 | 11000000000000000000000000000000 |
3 | 224.0.0.0 | E0000000 | 11100000000000000000000000000000 |
4 | 240.0.0.0 | F0000000 | 11110000000000000000000000000000 |
5 | 248.0.0.0 | F8000000 | 11111000000000000000000000000000 |
6 | 252.0.0.0 | FC000000 | 11111100000000000000000000000000 |
7 | 254.0.0.0 | FE000000 | 11111110000000000000000000000000 |
8 | 255.0.0.0 | FF000000 | 11111111000000000000000000000000 |
9 | 255.128.0.0 | FF800000 | 11111111100000000000000000000000 |
10 | 255.192.0.0 | FFC00000 | 11111111110000000000000000000000 |
11 | 255.224.0.0 | FFE00000 | 11111111111000000000000000000000 |
12 | 255.240.0.0 | FFF00000 | 11111111111100000000000000000000 |
13 | 255.248.0.0 | FFF80000 | 11111111111110000000000000000000 |
14 | 255.252.0.0 | FFFC0000 | 11111111111111000000000000000000 |
15 | 255.254.0.0 | FFFE0000 | 11111111111111100000000000000000 |
16 | 255.255.0.0 | FFFF0000 | 11111111111111110000000000000000 |
17 | 255.255.128.0 | FFFF8000 | 11111111111111111000000000000000 |
18 | 255.255.192.0 | FFFFC000 | 11111111111111111100000000000000 |
19 | 255.255.224.0 | FFFFE000 | 11111111111111111110000000000000 |
20 | 255.255.240.0 | FFFFF000 | 11111111111111111111000000000000 |
21 | 255.255.248.0 | FFFFF800 | 11111111111111111111100000000000 |
22 | 255.255.252.0 | FFFFFC00 | 11111111111111111111110000000000 |
23 | 255.255.254.0 | FFFFFE00 | 11111111111111111111111000000000 |
24 | 255.255.255.0 | FFFFFF00 | 11111111111111111111111100000000 |
25 | 255.255.255.128 | FFFFFF80 | 11111111111111111111111110000000 |
26 | 255.255.255.192 | FFFFFFC0 | 11111111111111111111111111000000 |
27 | 255.255.255.224 | FFFFFFE0 | 11111111111111111111111111100000 |
28 | 255.255.255.240 | FFFFFFF0 | 11111111111111111111111111110000 |
29 | 255.255.255.248 | FFFFFFF8 | 11111111111111111111111111111000 |
30 | 255.255.255.252 | FFFFFFFC | 11111111111111111111111111111100 |
31 | 255.255.255.254 | FFFFFFFE | 11111111111111111111111111111110 |
32 | 255.255.255.255 | FFFFFFFF | 11111111111111111111111111111111 |