Appendix A IP Addresses and Subnetting

Table 76 Subnet 4 (continued)

IP/SUBNET MASK

NETWORK NUMBER

LAST OCTET BIT

VALUE

 

 

Subnet Address:

Lowest Host ID: 192.168.1.193

 

192.168.1.192

 

 

 

 

 

Broadcast Address:

Highest Host ID: 192.168.1.254

 

192.168.1.255

 

 

 

 

 

Example: Eight Subnets

Similarly, use a 27-bit mask to create eight subnets (000, 001, 010, 011, 100, 101, 110 and 111).

The following table shows IP address last octet values for each subnet.

Table 77

Eight Subnets

 

 

 

SUBNET

 

SUBNET

FIRST ADDRESS

LAST

BROADCAST

 

 

ADDRESS

 

ADDRESS

ADDRESS

1

 

0

1

30

31

 

 

 

 

 

 

2

 

32

33

62

63

 

 

 

 

 

 

3

 

64

65

94

95

 

 

 

 

 

 

4

 

96

97

126

127

 

 

 

 

 

 

5

 

128

129

158

159

 

 

 

 

 

 

6

 

160

161

190

191

 

 

 

 

 

 

7

 

192

193

222

223

 

 

 

 

 

 

8

 

224

225

254

255

 

 

 

 

 

 

Subnet Planning

The following table is a summary for subnet planning on a network with a 24-bit network number.

Table 78 24-bit Network Number Subnet Planning

NO. “BORROWED”

SUBNET MASK

NO. SUBNETS

NO. HOSTS PER

HOST BITS

 

 

SUBNET

1

255.255.255.128 (/25)

2

126

 

 

 

 

2

255.255.255.192 (/26)

4

62

 

 

 

 

3

255.255.255.224 (/27)

8

30

 

 

 

 

4

255.255.255.240 (/28)

16

14

 

 

 

 

5

255.255.255.248 (/29)

32

6

 

 

 

 

6

255.255.255.252 (/30)

64

2

 

 

 

 

7

255.255.255.254 (/31)

128

1

 

 

 

 

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