ZyXEL Communications 100-NH Manual De Usuario

Appendix C IP Addresses and Subnetting

NWA1000 Series User’s Guide

The following table shows some possible subnet masks using both notations. 

You can use subnetting to divide one network into multiple sub-networks. In the following example 
a network administrator creates two sub-networks to isolate a group of servers from the rest of the 
company network for security reasons.

In this example, the company network address is 192.168.1.0. The first three octets of the address 
(192.168.1) are the network number, and the remaining octet is the host ID, allowing a maximum 
of 2

8

 – 2 or 254 possible hosts.

The following figure shows the company network before subnetting. 

Subnetting Example: Before Subnetting

You can “borrow” one of the host ID bits to divide the network 192.168.1.0 into two separate sub-
networks. The subnet mask is now 25 bits (255.255.255.128 or /25).

The “borrowed” host ID bit can have a value of either 0 or 1, allowing two subnets; 192.168.1.0 /25 
and 192.168.1.128 /25. 

Alternative Subnet Mask Notation

255.255.255.0

/24

0000 0000

0

255.255.255.128

/25

1000 0000

128

255.255.255.192

/26

1100 0000

192

255.255.255.224

/27

1110 0000

224

255.255.255.240

/28

1111 0000

240

255.255.255.248

/29

1111 1000

248

255.255.255.252

/30

1111 1100

252