Subnetting the subnet

~ KNM

Company with 200 hosts

Assigned class C network 195.10.1.0/24
Want 6 different LANs
Subnet class C network using mask 255.255.255.224
(/27)

Whole network has the same subnet mask or supports equal

number of hosts on all the sub-networks
Is this a problem?
Why?
What should be done to solve it ?

VLSM Subnets a subnet

VLSM divides a network into subnets of various sizes to
prevent wasting IP addresses

Uses up wasted addresses

Conserves address space on WAN links

Point-to-point link only needs 2 addresses

With VLSM point-to-point links can use a /30 mask

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Variable Length Subnet Masking allows division of address

space based on the size of networks
Start with network requiring the most addresses
Create a subnet mask
(use CIDR Classless Inter Domain Routing)
Subnet the subnet as needed to provide address space
required for other subnets
Be logical start at beginning or end or address space
Addresses must be contiguous to enable route
summarization

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Question
If an ISP has a 200.1.1.0 Network, he wants to give
assign to 5 customers who need 20, 12, 6, 25, 18 hosts.

What should the subnet mask be?

What is the address range in each subnet?
What should the routing table entries be?
Can it be done efficiently to conserve IP addresses?

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You are required to connect two networks in Brisbane

to those in Perth, having the following requirements:
Brisbane needs to support 25 hosts each on the two
networks
Perth office needs to support 5 and 10 hosts in its two
offices
You may use only 128.186.1.0 /24

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Office

#hosts

#host bits

#usable
hosts

subnet

Brisbane

25

30

/27

Brisbane

25

30

/27

Perth

10

14

/28

Perth

/29

WAN

/30

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Sort the subnet requirements by size, largest subnet first.

For each required subnet, allocate address space out of the
smallest available subnet
128.186.1.0/27
128.186.1.32/27
128.186.1.64/27
128.186.1.96/27
128.186.1.128/27
128.186.1.160/27
128.186.1.192/27
128.186.1.224/27

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subnets

Hosts available

networks

1.0/27

32

1/8

Brisbane

1.32/27

32

1/8

Brisbane

1.64/28

16

1/16

Perth

1.80/29

1/32

Perth

1.88/30

1/64

WAN

1.92/30

1/64

1.96/27

32

1/8

1.128/25

128

1/2

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Brisbane

Perth

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