Subnetting for Dummies

Hey Guys,

I can't believe this but I'm having the hardest time grasping subnetting, and I know once I get this down everything will come naturally.

Whats the foundation on learning how to subnet, especially doing it in your head, I'm great math, any ideas would be greatly appreciated!!!!

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Monkerz

What are you having troubles with? Seeing a netmask and trying to figure out how many hosts and subnets you get? Having a CIDR and trying to figure out hosts and subnets?

abefroman

Meast wrote: »

Hey Guys,

I can't believe this but I'm having the hardest time grasping subnetting, and I know once I get this down everything will come naturally.

Whats the foundation on learning how to subnet, especially doing it in your head, I'm great math, any ideas would be greatly appreciated!!!!

Remember the commond numbers:
Ie:
/24 is a cblock 256 ips and the subnet mask is 255.255.255.0
/25 is half of a /24 or 128 ips so the subnet is 255.255.255.128
/26 is half of a /25 or 64 so the subnet is 255.255.255.192 (128+64=192)

So if you have a /26 and it says something like is this a valid host address:
192.168.1.64
no, thats a network address

192.168.1.127
no thats a broadcast address

192.168.1.193
yes, valid hosts for that subnet are 192.168.1.193-254 (62 ips)

/23 is 2 /24's or 512 and the subnet mask is 255.255.254.0
/22 is 4 /24's or 2 /23's or 1024 ips and hte subnet mask is 255.255.252.0

Also like for a /22 to find the 3rd octet its 4 cblocks - 256 = 252

/32 is 1 ip
/31 is 2 ips
/30 is 4 ips
etc.

Before the test you probably want to right down /16 - /32, what the subnet mask is for those, and how many ips there.

HTH

miller811

Meast wrote: »

Hey Guys,

I can't believe this but I'm having the hardest time grasping subnetting, and I know once I get this down everything will come naturally.

Whats the foundation on learning how to subnet, especially doing it in your head, I'm great math, any ideas would be greatly appreciated!!!!

here is a great place to start

http://www.techexams.net/forums/ccna-ccent/38772-subnetting-made-easy.html

captobvious

miller811 wrote: »

here is a great place to start

http://www.techexams.net/forums/ccna-ccent/38772-subnetting-made-easy.html

+1

Made subnetting click in my head!