Answer to Question #117549 in Computer Networks for Nick

Question

you work for a large communications corporation named ITGlobe which has been assigned a Class C network address 192.1.42.3. Currently, the company has 500 subnets in the offices around the country. If all offices use the broadcast address what will it be? What will be the assignable/ valid IP addresses?

Answer 1

The network has:

$2^9=512$ addresses

Valid IP addresses: $192.1.42.4 - 192.1.43.257$

Broadcast address: $192.1.43.258$