tutorial for converting base 10 numbers to ip addresses
Anyone know where I can get some decent instructions and maybe some practice questions for this?
encrypt the encryption, never mind my brain hurts.
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BeaverC32 Member Posts: 670 ■■■□□□□□□□I believe you mean convert base 10 to base 2 (or vice versa)...correct? Shouldn't you already know this, being that you have your CCNA?MCSE 2003, MCSA 2003, LPIC-1, MCP, MCTS: Vista Config, MCTS: SQL Server 2005, CCNA, A+, Network+, Server+, Security+, Linux+, BSCS (Information Systems)
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liven Member Posts: 918BeaverC32 wrote:I believe you mean convert base 10 to base 2 (or vice versa)...correct? Shouldn't you already know this, being that you have your CCNA?
I guess your correct.
However I don't remember having to convert entire IP addresses to base 10 for the CCNA exam. I remember having to do some conversion (base 10 to base 2).
But nothing like:
convert 1110325108
to an dotted decimal IP address or the reverse.
I guess it is one of the exam topics, but most of the stuff I did was converting Hex to decimal to binary, but never an entire ip address.
I guess my question is do you start from the left or the right?
I found a formual:
A standard IP is "base 256." To convert 66.46.55.116 to base 10 the formula is:
66 x (256)3 + 46 x (256)2 + 55 x (256)1 + 116 = 1110325108
And I am pretty certain that this was NOT covered in any of my CCNA studies. Actually I came across this while studying for CEH. This technique is used to obfuscate IP addresses in code.
I have actually started to deal with this at work as well. We write and use software that compares network flows. TO do this we use C code to convert everything to base 10, and then back to dotted decimal, after comaprison is done. Then perl handles generating reports.
But like I said I have never had to do this in my head or by hand, and don't know if I will be able to. Studying for the CEH makes me feel as if it might be necessary.encrypt the encryption, never mind my brain hurts. -
dynamik Banned Posts: 12,312 ■■■■■■■■■□http://www.techexams.net/forums/viewtopic.php?p=11219#11219
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Sorry, you made it sound like you were just referring a part of subnetting. What you're trying to do is totally different. -
liven Member Posts: 918I guess I asked the wrong question. I really appriciate everyones response, and wanting to make sure I know how to do what cisco said I needed to do for my test. And I am pretty sure I got that hang of what I need for the CCNA. However I can say I am pretty certain the type of conversion I am talking about here is not a CCNA topic.
I need to be able to convert IP address in dotted decimal format to a regular old number.
I think it is called convert base 10 to IP.
I just don't know if I will be able to do it by hand the math is kinda ruff...
Example.
Convert: 66.46.55.116 to base 10
A standard IP is "base 256." To convert 66.46.55.116 to base 10 the formula is:
66 x (256)3 + 46 x (256)2 + 55 x (256)1 + 116 = 1110325108
Now that was kind of hard, but what about going the opposite direction?
convert:
1110325108
to IP...
Now that seems REALLY hard....
Hopefully there will not be to many questions of that nature..encrypt the encryption, never mind my brain hurts. -
Netstudent Member Posts: 1,693 ■■■□□□□□□□Unless you are just wanting to crunch numbers, I don't think you would ever need to do that in the real world or for an exam.There is no place like 127.0.0.1 BUT 209.62.5.3 is my 127.0.0.1 away from 127.0.0.1!
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liven Member Posts: 918dynamik wrote:http://www.techexams.net/forums/viewtopic.php?p=11219#11219
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Sorry, you made it sound like you were just referring a part of subnetting. What you're trying to do is totally different.
Hey thanks for the link, it helped me realize I am only partially crazy.encrypt the encryption, never mind my brain hurts. -
liven Member Posts: 918Netstudent wrote:Unless you are just wanting to crunch numbers, I don't think you would ever need to do that in the real world or for an exam.
I really hope you are correct.
I have come across this topic while studying for the CEH, just don't know how far they are going to take it...encrypt the encryption, never mind my brain hurts.