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a) A new department has been established with 405 hosts that require addresses. Currently the company uses the 20.10.0.0/19 address space. How many bits must the network administrator borrow to provide addresses for this subnet without wasting addresses?
b) Consider an Internet address of the form 12.42.184.0/20. What does the /20 signify?
a) Given IP Address: 20.10.0.0/19
Required hosts = 405
To provide 405 hosts we need atleast 9 bits. Thus 32 - 9 = 23.
Thus, the subnet Mask is 23.
Network administrator should borrow 4 bits.
Address: 20.10.0.0 00010100.00001010.0000000 0.00000000
Netmask: 255.255.254.0 = 23 11111111.11111111.1111111 0.00000000
Wildcard: 0.0.1.255 00000000.00000000.0000000 1.11111111
Network: 20.10.0.0/23 00010100.00001010.0000000 0.00000000 (Class A)
Broadcast: 20.10.1.255 00010100.00001010.0000000 1.11111111
HostMin: 20.10.0.1 00010100.00001010.0000000 0.00000001
HostMax: 20.10.1.254 00010100.00001010.0000000 1.11111110
Hosts/Net: 510
b)
Address: 12.42.184.0 00001100.00101010.1011 1000.00000000 Netmask: 255.255.240.0 = 20 11111111.11111111.1111 0000.00000000 Wildcard: 0.0.15.255 00000000.00000000.0000 1111.11111111
Network: 12.42.176.0/20 00001100.00101010.1011 0000.00000000 (Class A) Broadcast: 12.42.191.255 00001100.00101010.1011 1111.11111111 HostMin: 12.42.176.1 00001100.00101010.1011 0000.00000001 HostMax: 12.42.191.254 00001100.00101010.1011 1111.11111110 Hosts/Net: 4094
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