confused about subnets
saied
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in CCNA & CCENT
i mostly get the subnetting part. however i have some confusions when finiding out subnets.
for example this question was on one of my pre tests and although the videos tell me to use (2^n)-2, the tests indicate that they are using just 2^N. what i dont get is why?
YOu have been assigned an ip address of 135.65.0.0 and have selected 255.255.240.0 as the subnet mask. how may valid subnet addresses are available.
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in here they use 2^4 which is 16. shouldnt they use (2^4)-2
for example this question was on one of my pre tests and although the videos tell me to use (2^n)-2, the tests indicate that they are using just 2^N. what i dont get is why?
YOu have been assigned an ip address of 135.65.0.0 and have selected 255.255.240.0 as the subnet mask. how may valid subnet addresses are available.
8
16
32
64
128
in here they use 2^4 which is 16. shouldnt they use (2^4)-2
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YFZblu
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The '-2' portion only applies when calculating the number of hosts on a given subnet. The reason you subtract two at the end of host calculation is because the first IP address in a subnet range is the network number, and the last IP address is the broadcast address - Neither of those IP addresses will be assigned to hosts. -
fadhil
Member Posts: 200
Before cisco after subnetting, the first and last subnet were not take into consideration thats why they minus 2(2^n -2), some of the books which are not cisco certified use that procedure.but after cisco introduce ip subnet zero all networks take into consideration(can be used).