Class A Subnets

In Class A, only the first octet is used as Network

identifier and rest of three octets are used to be
assigned to Hosts (i.e. 16777214 Hosts per Network).
To make more subnet in Class A, bits from Host part
are borrowed and the subnet mask is changed
accordingly.

For example, if one MSB (Most Significant Bit) is

borrowed from host bits of second octet and added to
Network address, it creates two Subnets (21=2) with
(223-2) 8388606 Hosts per Subnet.

The Subnet mask is changed accordingly to reflect

Subnetting. Given below is a list of all possible
combination of Class A subnets:

In case of Subnetting too, the very first and last IP address of every subnet is used for Subnet Number and Subnet Broadcast
IP address respectively. Because these two IP addresses cannot be assigned to hosts, sub-netting cannot be implemented by
using more than 30 bits as Network Bits, which provides less than two hosts per subnet.
Class B Subnets
By default, using Classful Networking, 14 bits are used as Network bits providing (214) 16384 Networks and (216-2) 65534
Hosts. Class B IP Addresses can be subnetted the same way as Class A addresses, by borrowing bits from Host bits. Below is
given all possible combination of Class B Subnetting:

Class C Subnets
Class C IP addresses are normally assigned to a very
small size network because it can only have 254 hosts
in a network. Given below is a list of all possible
combination of subnetted Class B IP address:
Class C Subnetting:
Subnet 1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128 256
Host 256 128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1
Subnet /24 /25 /26 /27 /28 /29 /30 /31 /32
Mask

Class B Subnetting:
Subnet 1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128 256 512 1024 2048 4096 8192 16384 32768 65536

Host 65536 32768 16384 8192 4096 2048 1024 512 256 128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1

Subnet /16 /17 /18 /19 /20 /21 /22 /23 /24 /25 /26 /27 /28 /29 /30 /31 /32
Mask

Class A Subnetting:
Subn 1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128 256 512 102 204 409 819 163 327 655 1310 2621 5242 10485 20971 41943
et 4 8 6 2 84 68 36 72 44 88 76 52 04
Host 41943 20971 10485 5242 2621 1310 655 327 163 819 409 204 102 512 256 128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1
04 52 76 88 44 72 36 68 84 2 6 8 4
Subn /8 /9 /10 /11 /12 /13 /14 /15 /16 /17 /18 /19 /20 /21 /22 /23 /24 /25 /26 /27 /28 /29 /30
et
Mask
Network id- 10.117.96.0

Subnetmask- 255.255.224.0

1st Valid Host- 10.13.0.1

Last valid host-

Subnets to break – 2
HOSTS- 210-2= 65536

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