Subnetting Practice A (Answers at the bottom. No Cheating!

1. You are the proud possessor of a class C network: 205.110.1.0/24

a. Subnet this network in order to allow for 30 hosts per subnet.
b. What will the new subnet mask be?
c. What are the first 3 subnet IDs in CIDR notation?
d. How many new networks have you created?
e. How many hosts will be in each network?

2. You are the proud possessor of a class C network: 199.1.2.0/24

a. Subnet this network in order to allow for 5 subnets.
b. What will the new subnet mask be?
c. What are the first 3 subnet IDs in CIDR notation?
d. How many new networks have you created?
e. How many hosts will be in each network?

3. You are the proud possessor of a class B network: 130.19.0.0/16

a. Subnet this network in order to allow for 17 subnets.
b. What will the new subnet mask be?
c. What are the first 3 subnet IDs in CIDR notation?
d. How many new networks have you created?
e. How many hosts will be in each network?

4. You are the proud possessor of a class B network: 134.22.0.0/16

a. Subnet this network in order to allow for 500 hosts per subnet.
b. What will the new subnet mask be?
c. What are the first 3 subnet IDs in CIDR notation?
d. How many new networks have you created?
e. How many hosts will be in each network?

5. You are the proud possessor of a class A network: 15.0.0.0/8

a. Subnet this network in order to allow for 5000 subnets.
b. What will the new subnet mask be?
c. What are the first 3 subnet IDs in CIDR notation?
d. How many new networks have you created?
e. How many hosts will be in each network?
ANSWERS

Always start with the binary table:

27 26 25 24 23 22 21 20
128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1

1. You are the proud possessor of a class C network: 205.110.1.0/24

a. Subnet this network in order to allow for 30 hosts.
b. What will the new subnet mask be?

We are working for hosts, so we focus on the zeros in the subnet mask
2x-2 >= 30, 25-2 = 30 >= 30, Therefore: 11111111.11111111.11111111.11100000, therefore
255.255.255.224
c. What are the first 3 subnet IDs in CIDR notation?

Our last binary one is in the 32s column of the fourth octet, so we will increase by 32.
Checking our work, 256-224(our last positive subnet integer) = 32. Therefore
205.110.1.0 /27
205.110.1.32 /27
205.110.1.64 /27

d. How many new networks have you created?

We had 24 binary ones, now we have 27, so we added 3 binary ones. 23 = 8 subnets

e. How many hosts will be in each network?

3
2 -2 = 30 hosts per network

2. You are the proud possessor of a class C network: 199.1.2.0/24

a. Subnet this network in order to allow for 5 subnets.
b. What will the new subnet mask be?

We are working for networks, so we focus on the ones in the subnet mask
2x = 5, 23 = 8 >= 5, Therefore: 11111111.11111111.11111111.11100000, therefore
255.255.255.224
c. What are the first 3 subnet IDs in CIDR notation?

Our last binary one is in the 32s column of the fourth octet, so we will increase by 32.
Checking our work, 256-224(our last positive subnet integer) = 32. Therefore,
199.1.2.0 /27
199.1.2.32 /27
199.1.2.64 /27

d. How many new networks have you created?

We had 24 binary ones, now we have 27, so we added 3 binary ones. 23 = 8 subnets

e. How many hosts will be in each network?

3
2 -2 = 30 hosts per network

3. You are the proud possessor of a class B network: 130.19.0.0/16

a. Subnet this network in order to allow for 17 subnets.
We are working for networks, so we focus on the ones in the subnet mask
2x >= 17, 25 = 32 >= 17, Therefore: 11111111.11111111.11111000.00000000, therefore
255.255.248.0

b. What are the first 3 subnet IDs in CIDR notation?

Our last binary one is in the 8s column of the third octet, so we will increase by 8. Checking
our work, 256-248(our last positive subnet integer) = 8. Therefore
130.19.0.0 /21
130.19.8.0 /21
130.19.16.0 /21

c. How many new networks have you created?

We had 16 binary ones, now we have 21, so we added 5 binary ones. 25 = 32 subnets

d. How many hosts will be in each network?

11
2 -2 = 2046 hosts per network

4. You are the proud possessor of a class B network: 134.22.0.0/16

a. Subnet this network in order to allow for 500 hosts per subnet.
b. What will the new subnet mask be?
We are working for hosts, so we focus on the zeros in the subnet mask
2x-2 >= 500, 29-2 = 510 >= 500, Therefore: 11111111.11111111.11111110.00000000, therefore
255.255.254.0

c. What are the first 3 subnet IDs in CIDR notation?

Our last binary one is in the 2s column of the third octet, so we will increase by 2. Checking
our work, 256-254(our last positive subnet integer) = 2. Therefore,
134.22.0.0 /23
134.22.2.0 /23
134.22.4.0 /23

d. How many new networks have you created?

We had 16 binary ones, now we have 23, so we added 7 binary ones. 27 = 128 subnets

e. How many hosts will be in each network?

9
2 -2 = 510 hosts per network

5. You are the proud possessor of a class A network: 15.0.0.0/8

a. Subnet this network in order to allow for 5000 subnets.
b. What will the new subnet mask be?
We are working for networks, so we focus on the ones in the subnet mask
2x >= 5000, 213 = 8192 >= 5000, Therefore: 11111111.11111111.11111000.00000000, therefore
255.255.248.0

c. What are the first 3 subnet IDs in CIDR notation?

Our last binary one is in the 8s column of the third octet, so we will increase by 8. Checking
our work, 256-248(our last positive subnet integer) = 8. Therefore
15.0.0.0 /21
15.0.8.0 /21
15.0.16.0 /21

d. How many new networks have you created?

213 = 8192 networks

e. How many hosts will be in each network?

211-2 = 2046 hosts per network