ZyXEL G-405 User Guide - Page 86
Chart 8-2 Allowed IP Address Range By Class, Subnet Masks, Chart 8-3 Natural Masks, Subnetting
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ZyAIR G-405 User's Guide Similarly the first octet of a class "B" must begin with "10", therefore the first octet of a class "B" address has a valid range of 128 to 191. The first octet of a class "C" address begins with "110", and therefore has a range of 192 to 223. Chart 8-2 Allowed IP Address Range By Class CLASS Class A Class B Class C Class D ALLOWED RANGE OF FIRST OCTET (BINARY) 00000000 to 01111111 10000000 to 10111111 11000000 to 11011111 11100000 to 11101111 ALLOWED RANGE OF FIRST OCTET (DECIMAL) 0 to 127 128 to 191 192 to 223 224 to 239 Subnet Masks A subnet mask is used to determine which bits are part of the network number, and which bits are part of the host ID (using a logical AND operation). A subnet mask has 32 bits; each bit of the mask corresponds to a bit of the IP address. If a bit in the subnet mask is a "1" then the corresponding bit in the IP address is part of the network number. If a bit in the subnet mask is "0" then the corresponding bit in the IP address is part of the host ID. Subnet masks are expressed in dotted decimal notation just as IP addresses are. The "natural" masks for class A, B and C IP addresses are as follows. Chart 8-3 "Natural" Masks CLASS NATURAL MASK A 255.0.0.0 B 255.255.0.0 C 255.255.255.0 Subnetting With subnetting, the class arrangement of an IP address is ignored. For example, a class C address no longer has to have 24 bits of network number and 8 bits of host ID. With subnetting, some of the host ID bits are converted into network number bits. By convention, subnet masks always consist of a continuous sequence of ones beginning from the left most bit of the mask, followed by a continuous sequence of zeros, for a total number of 32 bits. Since the mask is always a continuous number of ones beginning from the left, followed by a continuous number of zeros for the remainder of the 32 bit mask, you can simply specify the number of ones instead of L IP Subnetting