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Some Project Help with VLSM Subnetting

MisterZT
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Ok so I have to design a subnetting scheme for different locations with different hosts. Tampa needs 10 hosts, Atlanta Has 100 hosts and Boston has 53 hosts. The IP is 172.16.1.0 with a prefix of /24

My prefix's so far are. I am not sure if these prefix's will work.

/28 for Tampa

/25 for Atlanta

/26 for Boston

The magic number part is confusing me. If I start at 172.16.1.128 with Atlanta, the IPS are going to collide when I do the other ones since I have to do 172.16.1.128 ,172.16.2.128 and etc

 

 

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Deepak Kumar
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Hi, 

As you mentioned that you got 172.16.1.0 /24 subnet then you have to make all VLSM within 256 hosts. 

As per your requirement your VLSM as below:

 

172.16.1.0/25  :: Atlanta
172.16.1.128/26 :: Boston
192.168.1.191/28 :: Tampa

 

Regards,

Deepak Kumar

Regards,
Deepak Kumar,
Don't forget to vote and accept the solution if this comment will help you!

What Deepak shows is fine, but I just wanted to add there's more combinations.

For example, since a /25 will consume half of your /24, you have a choice of whether to use the top/1st half (as Deepak did) or the bottom/2nd half (which would be 172.16.1.128/25).

Depending on which half of the /24 you use, your remaining free /25 provides a top/1st and a bottom/2nd /25. Again, you can use either, and also again Deepak chose to use the remaining top/1st /25.

Lastly you have the /28 to allocate. After you've allocated your /25 and /26, you have a /26 of free space within your original /24 block, which supports four /28s. You could use any of those four.

However it can get "tricky", not technically, but regarding planning space allocation. Let's say you need to allocate two /28s out of your remaining /26. If you chose the the first and last available /28, although you would have a /27's worth of continuous IP space, you could not allocated it as a /27. To preserve the option to allocate it as a /27, your two /28s should be allocated as the first two or last two blocks of the /26.
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