Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Variable Length Subnet Masks (VLSM)


Subnets with no VLSM applied



Subnets with VLSM applied




VSLM, Example 1




VLSM, Example 2


Summary Example

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Subnetting Basics

Benefits of subnetting include:
  • Reduced network traffic
  • Optimized network performance
  • Simplified management
  • Facilitated spanning of large geographical distances.

How To Create Subnets

Take bits from the host portion of the IP address and reserve the to divine the subnet address.


Understanding the Powers of 2


Subnet Masks
  • Used to define which part of the host address will be used as the subnet address.
  • A 32-bit value that allows the recipient of IP packets to distinguish the network ID portion of the IP address from the host ID portion.

Default Subnet Masks


Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR)

Used to allocate an amount of IP address space to a given entity (company, home, customer, etc).
Example: 192.168.10.32/28

The slash notation (/) means how many bits are turned on (1s) and tells you what your subnet mask is.

CIDR Values

Monday, July 6, 2009

IP Addressing

An IP address is a numeric identifier assigned to each machine on an IP network.

It designates the specific location of a device on the network.

IP addressing was designed to allow hosts on one network to communicate with a host on a different network regardless of the type of LANs the hosts are participating in.


IP Terminology

BIT: A bit is one digit, either a 1 or a 0.

BYTE: A byte is 7 or 8 bits, depending on whether parity is used. For the rest of this chapter, always assume a byte is 8 bits.

OCTET: An octet, made up of 8 bits, is just an ordinary 8-bit binary number. In this chapter, the terms byte and octet are completely interchangeable.

Network address: This is the designation used in routing to send packets to a remote network—for example, 10.0.0.0, 172.16.0.0, and 192.168.10.0.

Broadcast address: The address used by applications and hosts to send information to all nodes on a network is called the broadcast address.


Network Addressing


Subdividing an IP address into a network and node address is determined by the class designation of one’s network. This figure summarizes the three classes of networks.


Reserved Addressing


Private Addressing