IP Subnetting
IP SUBNETTING General way of sub-netting: In this way we will be using two different formulas for calculating sub-networks and Hosts. Calculating Subnets: Example 1: IP: 172.16.0.1/18 X.X.11000000.00000000 Formula for calculating subnetworks is 2^n (2 to the power of n). n = The number of bits used for Networks. Note: as the first two octets 8+8 = 16 bits have been filled completely we should not consider them. The remaining two bits only we should consider for calculating subnetworks. Hence, n= 2. Number of subnets is = 2^2 = 4 4 subnets. They are: 172.16.0.0/18 - 172.16.63.0/18 172.16.0.64/18 - ...