- Las redes IP se consideran de diferentes clases dependiendo de los bits más
significativos [13]:
Prefix Fraction of
Allocation (binary) Address Space
------------------------------------- ------------ -------------
Reserved 0000 0000 1/256
Unassigned 0000 0001 1/256
Reserved for NSAP (ATM) Allocation 0000 001 1/128
Reserved for IPX (Novell) Allocation 0000 010 1/128
Unassigned 0000 011 1/128
Unassigned 0000 1 1/32
Unassigned 0001 1/16
Aggregatable Global Unicast Addresses 001 1/8
Unassigned 010 1/8
Unassigned 011 1/8
Unassigned 100 1/8
Unassigned 101 1/8
Unassigned 110 1/8
Unassigned 1110 1/16
Unassigned 1111 0 1/32
Unassigned 1111 10 1/64
Unassigned 1111 110 1/128
Unassigned 1111 1110 0 1/512
Link-Local Unicast Addresses 1111 1110 10 1/1024
Site-Local Unicast Addresses 1111 1110 11 1/1024
Multicast Addresses 1111 1111 1/256