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The address of a class B host is to be split into subnets with a 6-bit subnet number. What is the maximum number of subnets and the maximum number of hosts in each subnet?
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- 62 subnets and 262142 hosts
- 64 subnets and 262142 hosts
- 62 subnets and 1022 hosts
- 64 subnets and 1024 hosts
- 62 subnets and 262142 hosts
Correct Option: C
With a class B Host, if it is to be split in a 6 Bit subnet number (As given), Then, It would have a 10 bit host number To understand this, It is with a 16 Bit host number that it is divided into 6 bit Subnet number and 10 bit host number
Here, we have the number of departments = 64 that means – 26 (2 raise to the power 6) So, number of subnet, n = 6
So, 16 Bit host number is divided and we can calculate the following,
Maximum of subnets = 2^6 – 2 = 62
Maximum number of host in each subnet = 2^10 – 2 = 1022
