Hello there

Suppose You have two computers. One named kenny which has an IP address of 192.168.0.7. kenny lives
on a subnet with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.240. The second computer is called zathras, which
has an IP address of 192.168.0.17, zathras lives on a network with the same subnet mask.

i) When kenny sends packets to zathras, do they need to go through a router?

ii) What is the network and broadcast address for the network that zathras lives on?

i) yes
kenny == 192.168.0.1 - 192.168.0.14 network
zathraa == 192.168.0.17 - 192.168.0.30 network

ii) network == 192.168.0.16; broadcast == 192.168.0.31

Could u plz explain the solution?

8 bits per octect (2^8 == 256; less 1 because we start count at 0 == 255)

(for simplicity) IP range: 0-255.0-255.0-255.0-255

your subnet mask of 255.255.255.240 borrows from the last octet which in binary is
11111111.11111111.11111111.11110000
since we know the first 3 octets are 255 we'll focus on the last only

time to get out your ol' binary conversion skills

[code]
d: 128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1
b: 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0
[code]
128+64+32+16 = 240 (your subnet mask)
that leaves us with only 4 bits left (fields 8, 4, 2, and 1)
8+4+2+1=15
of those 15 possible, the first is the network and the last is the broadcast

we know that kenny has a .7 IP so he falls in the 0-15 network which allows us 1-14 IP for use.
since zathras has a .17 IP we know it is greater than the alotted 14 IPs in the first network (kenny's network) so it must be in another subnet. in this case it just happened to be the next in line. 16-31 (IPs for use 17-30).

I'm sure there are much better explanations out there but that's my 5 minute explanation.

thanks a lot for this nice explanation.
one last thing
for kenny why 1-14 IPrange is allowed
and not (0-15).
Why dont we use ip 0 and 15?

and again for zathras why IPs for use 17-30 and not 16-31
why dont we use ip 16 and 31

oh good grief, please don't help people out with homework. you know he's just cut and paste all your work into his assignment and handed it in, don't you?

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