An IP address is the identification of your device(or host) in the network and Internet. IP address (example: 192.168.1.2), is the address you used when sending and receiving messages in the network. IPv4 addresses are set in a form of 4 octets, each octet with 8 bits to be a total of 32 bits. IPv6 has 128 bits.<\/p>\n
What is a subnet?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n A subnet (short for subnetwork) is a logical subdivision of an IP network. You can imagine it to be like a group, where members of the group work together and get some privileges because there are in the group.<\/p>\n A simple analogy will be a school. While all students are part of the school, they are subdivided (in this case physically) into different classes. School is the network, classes are the subnetworks.<\/p>\n What is subnetting?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Subnetting is a process or practice of dividing a network into subnetworks. Continuing the school analogy, subnetting is a process of dividing or creating the different classes.<\/p>\n How do you know which subnet your device (or host) belongs to?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n In school you know your class by your class name, typically the from and name or number. For example, class 4A1, 4A2 : are Form 4 classes , taking accounts subject as a major. So all students in these two classes take accounts as a major subject.<\/p>\n Subnets works the same way. A subnet is identified by identical most-significant bits of their IP address. For example: 192.168.1.2\/24,\u00a0 192.168.1.11\/24 and 192.168.1.232\/24 are all in the same subnet because their significant bits (the first 24 bits, as given by the subnet mask) are identical – which is 192.168.1.<\/p>\n What is subnet mask?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Subnet mask is the number used to identify the subnet most-significant bits – which will identify the subnet.<\/p>\n
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