Host IP address vs gateway IP address vs DHCP IP address
What is the difference between a host IP address, a gateway IP address, and a DHCP IP address when setting up networking devices? For example, when configuring a virtual network adapter for my VM,...
What's the difference between host and network address?
Often in the interviews there is a question 'how many hosts this network can have and how many subnetworks?'. Let's say we have /30 network. It has 4 addresses total, minus it's own network addres...
How do you calculate the prefix, network, subnet, and host numbers?
Notice that the network address for each subnet borrows host bits from the parent network block. Finding the required subnet masklength or netmask: How did I know that I need at least a /25 …
ip - What are the differences between network, host, loopback and ...
An IP address can be broken down into two parts, namely the Network Address and Host Address. In your example, /29 refers to the Subnet Mask which means the 29 bits of the total 32 bits from MSB to …
Valid host ip addresses - Cisco Learning Network
The network address would be 172.168.0.0 (172.168.0.1 is the first usable host) and the last address is 172.168.255.255 which is the broadcast. The last usable host would be 1 less than the broadcast …
What is the purpose of network address?
I added it as a clarification -- all-zero/ones host vs. network address. The latter has zero meaning anymore -- no one makes assumptions about subnet sizes, the former are both handled as a subnet …
Network Binary Math Explained
Finding the Network Address An IP address is a 32-bit sequence, composed of four octets (each octet containing eight bits). The IP address consists of network and host portions. The network portion is …
Borrowed Bits - Cisco Learning Network
Borrowed bits refer to the bits you "borrow" from the network segment to use as your host IPs. If you have a /24, 255.255.255.0, and you expand it, to say, /22, which is 255.255.252.0, then you would be …
Configure a Standard IP Access List (ACL) on a Cisco router to block ...
Sep 24, 2025 · Standard access-list uses the range 1-99 or 1300-1999. We can create a standard access list in two ways: by using a number or by using a name. These are the Access-list which are …
192.168.1.0 /24 - Cisco Learning Network
192.168.1.0 /24 - This is Class C address A class C network uses the first three octets for the network. The last octet is for the host so thats 2^8-2=254 So since there is only one full octet for the host, it …