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departments. Each department expects to use fewer than 254 host addresses, so the entire third byte of the address is chosen for the subnetwork number. To reserve the third byte for the subnetwork number, they use subnetwork mask 255.255.255.0. Figure 37 on page 158 illustrates this point.

Figure 37 Address mask example

Network node (133.101.1.8)

 

 

 

 

Subnet ID

 

 

Host

ID

 

Class

B

 

 

network ID

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

133

 

101

1

 

 

 

8

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

+ Subnet mask (255.255.255.0)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Class

 

 

 

Subnet ID

 

 

Host ID

B network ID

 

 

255

 

255

255

 

 

 

0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

= Subnet network (for example, 133.101.1.0)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Subnet ID

 

 

Host ID

 

Class

B net

 

 

133

 

 

 

1

 

 

 

 

 

 

101

 

 

 

0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Network 133.101.1.0 is a subnet of network 131.101.0.0.

There is no official requirement that the subnet mask consist only of contiguous bits. However, in the presence of variable width subnetworks, non- contiguous masks can lead to ambiguous routing when subnet masks partially overlap (such as 255.255.255.0 and 255.255.0.255).

Network numbering example

Figure 38 on page 159 illustrates an example of a simple network numbering scheme for an organization that performs all networking internally. Since, for security reasons, they never expect to attach to the outside world, they use their own set of network numbers. The network has two routers: one for the Corporate Networking group to interconnect non-engineering users, and a second for a large, computer-intensive department, such as Engineering.

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