ZyXEL Communications 28641 user manual 7 TCP/IP Configuration, IP Subnet Mask

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7 TCP/IP Configuration

This chapter shows you how to configure the Prestige for TCP/IP. Depending on your particular applications, you will need to configure different menus. For instance, Internet access is the most common application of TCP/IP. For this application, you should configure Menu 4. We will illustrate the configuration for other applications in the following sections.

IP Subnet Mask

A subnet mask is a 32-bit quantity that, when logically ANDed with an IP address, yields the network number. For instance, the subnet masks for class A, B and C without subnetting are 255.0.0.0, 255.255.0.0 and 255.255.255.0, respectively.

To create more network numbers, you shift some bits from the host ID to the network ID. For instance, to partition a class C network number 192.68.135.0 into two, you shift 1 bit from the host ID to the network ID. Thus the new subnet mask will be 255.255.255.128; the first subnet will have network number 192.68.135.0 with hosts 192.68.135.1 to 129.68.135.126 and the second subnet will have network number 192.68.135.128 with hosts 192.68.135.129 to 192.68.135.254.

It is recommended that you use the same subnet mask for all physical networks that share an IP network number. The table below lists the additional subnet mask bits in dot decimal notations. To use to following table, write down the original subnet mask and substitute the higher order 0s with the dot decimal of the additional subnet bits. For instance,

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