SubnetOnline.com, Subnet Calculator Heaven
Your Online Resource


Main Page Downloads About
Calculators Online Tools Search

Step 1 : Binary IP Calculation!


Binary vs. Decimal

Although we all use the decimal notation for an IP address, all calculations are done in binary values. If you want to do any calculation, you must first understand decimal conversion to binary. Every IP address consist of four octets and every octet in an IP address is represented by 8 bits.

octet1 octet2 octet3 octet4

  192     168      90      1

Now that you know that every IP has 4 octets, lets take a closer look at on of the octets, octet 1. This octet has a decimal value of 192 which would represent a binary value of 11000000. Every binary value consist of 8 bits, either 1 or 0. If a bit is 1 it is considered "active" or on, if it is 0 it is "not active" or off. But how does 192 make 11000000?

Simple, take a look at the standard binary calculation table below. You see 8 numbers, which represent the 8 bits in a binary value. Place the binary value 11000000 underneath and see what happens.

128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1

  1   1   0  0  0 0 0 0    -- Bits

Because every bit set to 1 is considered active, add the values corresponding with 1's.

128 + 64 = 192.

Another example:

The decimal value 219 would make a binary value of:

128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1

  1   1   0  1  1 0 1 1    -- Bits

128 + 64 + 16 + 8 + 2 + 1 = 219

If you would convert all four octets of the ip address 192.168.90.1 in to binary, it would look like this:

octet1         octet2        octet3      octet4

    192            168           90           1

11000000 . 10101000 . 01011010 . 00000001

If you want to try some yourself, change the following decimal number to binary values. Click the answer button to view the correct answer!

240
96
19
133

And if you want some more, here you can try it the other way around.

11001100
10110011
11101100
10111011

Back to Start Page | Continue with Step 2:


Copyright © 1998-2007, SubnetOnline.Com. All rights reserved.
Contact Us | Privacy Policy | Legal Notice