Notes for Class 3


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Homework is to do the practice (Class 3 Practice) with a default subnet mask and for class A use a custom subnet of 255.248.0.0, Class B: 255.255.248.0 and Class C 255.255.255.248 Also tell me how many networks I will create for each class and how many hosts/network.

Subnetting is breaking the network into smaller networks. You would do this for a number of reasons such as security or to lower traffic over a router.

Subnet Mask:

You divide up the remaining bits of a subnet mask to use for a network ID (the zeros.)
 

Default subnet mask.
Class A
255
0
0
0
Class B
255
255
0
0
Class C
255
255
255
0

A custom subnet mask for a class B network might be 255.255.252.0  I used the third octet (252) to divide up my network. I used
 
 
11111111 = 255
11111110 = 254
11111100 = 252
11111000 = 248
11110000 = 240
11100000 = 224
11000000 = 192
10000000 = 128

I used 6 bits (1s) to divide up my network into smaller parts. To figure how many subnets we need use the formula 2 (power of n) -2 n is the number of 1s in the subnet mask  n=6  gives you 62 subnets.

To figure how many hosts you will have with that subnet mask you 2 (power of h) -2
h is the number of  00 in the subnet mask. We have 2 zeros left in this octet plus 8 left in the last octet for a total of 10.
2 (power of 10) - 2 = 1022 hosts.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
               
128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1
               

 
 
 
 
 
Class A 122 28  32 244
Class B 129 219 222 250
Class C 192 21 33 214

 

Class 3 Presentation