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Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research Al-Mustaqbal University College Department of Technical Computer Engineering

The document discusses the four levels of addresses used in TCP/IP networking: physical addresses, logical addresses, port addresses, and specific addresses. It provides details on each type of address, including that physical addresses are MAC addresses used at the data link layer, logical addresses are IP addresses that uniquely identify hosts, port addresses allow processes on a single host to be differentiated, and specific addresses combine logical and port addresses to uniquely identify processes communicating across the Internet.

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Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research Al-Mustaqbal University College Department of Technical Computer Engineering

The document discusses the four levels of addresses used in TCP/IP networking: physical addresses, logical addresses, port addresses, and specific addresses. It provides details on each type of address, including that physical addresses are MAC addresses used at the data link layer, logical addresses are IP addresses that uniquely identify hosts, port addresses allow processes on a single host to be differentiated, and specific addresses combine logical and port addresses to uniquely identify processes communicating across the Internet.

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Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific

Research Al-Mustaqbal University College


Department of Technical Computer Engineering

Computer Network 3rd Stage


Lecturer: Hussein Ali Ameen

2019-2020
ADDRESSING

Four levels of addresses are used in an internet employing the TCP/IP


protocols:
Physical (link) addresses, logical (IP) addresses, Port addresses, Specific addresses
ADDRESSING

Each address is related to a specific layer in the TCPIIP architecture, as shown in


Figure
ADDRESSING

Physical Addresses
• The physical address, also known as the link address or mac address,
• Is the address of a node as defined by its LAN or WAN.
• It is included in the frame used by the data link layer.
• Ethernet Uses a 6-byte (48-bit) physical address that is imprinted on the network
interface card (NIC).
07:01:02:01 :2C:4B
A 6-byte (12 hexadecimal digits) physical address
ADDRESSING

Physical Addresses
• a node with physical address 10 sends a frame to a node with physical address
87.
• The two nodes are connected by a link (bus topology LAN).
• At the data link layer, this frame contains physical (link) addresses in the header.
• These are the only addresses needed.
ADDRESSING

Physical Addresses
ADDRESSING

Logical Addresses
• Logical addresses are necessary for universal communications.
• A logical address in the Internet is currently a 32-bit address that can uniquely
define a host connected to the Internet.
• No two publicly addressed and visible hosts on the Internet can have the same
IP address.
ADDRESSING

IP addresses
- Each device (computer
or router) has a pair of
addresses (logical and
physical) for each
connection.
- Each router has three
pairs of addresses, one
for each connection.
ADDRESSING

Port Addresses
• Today, computers are devices that can run multiple processes at the same
time. The end objective of Internet communication is a process
communicating with another process.
• we need a method to label the different processes. In other words, they need
addresses.
• In the TCPIIP architecture, the label assigned to a process is called a port
address. A port address in TCPIIP is 16 bits in length.
ADDRESSING

Port Addresses
- The sending computer is
running three processes at this
time with port addresses a, b,
and c.
- The receiving computer is
running two processes at this
time with port addresses j and k.
ADDRESSING

Port Addresses
- Process a in the sending computer
needs to communicate with process j
in the receiving computer.
- Note that although both computers
are using the same application, FTP,
for example, the port addresses are
different because one is a client
program and the other is a server
program

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