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IP Addresses and Subnets — A Developer's Practical Guide

Understanding IP addressing and subnetting is essential for configuring servers and designing cloud VPCs. Covers IPv4, CIDR, and subnetting.

Dev Utilities Team
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IP Addresses and Subnets — A Developer's Practical Guide

Private IP ranges

RangeCIDRUse
10.x.x.x10.0.0.0/8Large enterprise, cloud VPCs
172.16–31.x.x172.16.0.0/12Medium networks
192.168.x.x192.168.0.0/16Home/office LANs

CIDR notation

/24 = 256 addresses, 254 usable hosts. /30 = 4 addresses, 2 usable hosts. /32 = single host.

Calculate subnets with our CIDR Calculator.

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