In: Computer Science
University of Southern Ontario has been assigned a Class B address with a network number of 132.27.0.0. You are asked to come up with a subnetting scheme that allows to create 650 subnets on that network. Show your work.
1) How many bits must be borrowed for the subnet ID?
2) What is the subnet mask required?
3) How many hosts there can be on each subnet?
4) How many subnets can there be?
5) Explain in 4 lines MAX, how subnetting helps in this case save IP addresses.