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Subnetting

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- [Instructor] When working with IP addressing, you may have heard the term subnetting. And maybe you've wondered, what does it exactly mean, to do subnetting? Well, subnetting is a process of taking a large network... Alright, so, if you think of back when I was talking about classful IP addressing, maybe you have a B-class range of IP addresses available to you, which means that you have 60 over 65,000 IP addresses, but that's too much to manage as a single network. So, what you can do is you can subnet it Alright, I just mentioned a B-class network, so, if we had a network of 172.16.0.0, which has 65,534 hosts, what I can do is, you'll notice that the B-class range has a subnet mask of 255.255.0.0. What we're going to do is we're going to go ahead and move the bar over to the right. In other words, the bar that divides where the network ID and the host ID is, we're going to move the bar to the right. We're now going to…

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