Edimax Technology ES-5240G+ - Manual (Page 21)

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Fig. 2-7 the Login Screen for Web
2-1-4. IP Address Assignment
For IP address configuration, four parameters are required. They are IP
address, Subnet Mask, Default Gateway and DNS.
IP address:
The IP address of the network device in a network is used for internetworking
communication. The IP address is structured as shown in Fig. 2-8. It is classified
into predefined address classes or categories.
Each class has its own network range. Each IP address comprises two parts:
network identifier (address) and host identifier (address). The former indicates the
network where the addressed host resides, and the latter indicates the individual
host in the network which the address refers to the host identifier must be unique in
the same LAN. The terms of IP address we used here is version 4, known as IPv4.
Network identifier Host identifier
Fig. 2-8 IP address structure
32 bits