Microsens MS453522M User Manual
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MICROSENS 8 Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch
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In this diagram, you can see the subnet mask with 25-bit long, 255.255.255.128, contains
126 members in the sub-netted network. Another is that the length of network prefix equals
the number of the bit with 1s in that subnet mask. With this, you can easily count the number of
IP addresses matched. The following table shows the result.
Prefix Length No. of IP matched No. of Addressable IP
/32 1
-
/31 2
-
/30 4
2
/29 8
6
/28 16
14
/27 32
30
/26 64
62
/25 128
126
/24 256
254
/23 512
510
/22 1024
1022
/21 2048
2046
/20 4096
4094
/19 8192
8190
/18 16384
16382
/17 32768
32766
/16 65536
65534
Table 2-4
According to the scheme above, a subnet mask 255.255.255.0 will partition a network
with the class C. It means there will have a maximum of 254 effective nodes existed in this sub-
netted network and is considered a physical network in an autonomous network. So it owns a
network IP address which may looks like 168.1.2.0.
With the subnet mask, a bigger network can be cut into small pieces of network. If we
want to have more than two independent networks in a worknet, a partition to the network
must be performed. In this case, subnet mask must be applied.