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Subnet Mask and CIDR: How many valid hosts can be used on a specific subnet (Classless Addressing)?
Subnet Mask and CIDR: How many valid hosts can be used on a specific subnet (Classless Addressing)?
Updated over a year ago

CIDR or Classless Inter-Domain Routing another IP addressing system that allows more flexible allocation of IP addresses compared to the original Classful addressing scheme (A, B, C, D and E). The Classful IP addressing scheme can be wasteful. For example, giving the minimum IP address allocation of 256 (Class C) to a network which only requires 15 addresses.

The table below shows us how many available addresses are there in subnet for a specific CIDR notation.

  • 2(32-CIDR)= number of devices on the local network

  • Number of valid host is always two less than the subnet block

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