A Network With 10 Bits Remaining For The Host Portion Will Have How Many Usable Host Addresses?

A Network With 10 Bits Remaining For The Host Portion Will Have How Many Usable Host Addresses?

A Network with 10 bits remaining for the host portion will have 1022 usable host addresses. Today, let us discuss the network host portions and the host addresses in detail. Normally the IP addresses can be divided into four portions, each portion consists of a group of eight bits.

All these four portions are again divided into two types. They are network portions and host portions. In each of the classes, there be a network portion and then the host portion. The below figure shows the structure of the network and the host portion.We have seen the network and the host portion, but what exactly do the network portion and the host portion mean?. The main difference between the host and the network device is that the host represents only the single device whereas the network represents the set of all the devices in it. Each and every device that is connected to a network is considered a host. And a set of all these devices that hold is called the network. But why do we use the terms network portion and the host portion differently? We can identify all the hosts, to which network it belongs. Based on the network portion that is given, we can identify whether it belongs to the same network or it belongs to a different network.

Let us take an example to understand this concept in detail. For suppose we have two different Ip addresses 192.168.10.11 and 192.168.10.20, let us assume they are physically connected to each other, since they are physically connected we can call them as in the sam network. But also they logically should be in the same with each other.

When they have the same network portions, then we can call them logically equivalent to each other. When the host has the same network portion, we can say they belong to the same network. Similarly when we observe the two IP addresses. The first three portions are called the network ports and the remaining one is called the host portion. By this, we can say that they are logically in the same network. When they are in the same network portion, then we can say that they can communicate with each other, if all the connectivity is in the proper manner.

These two IP addresses can communicate with each other in an easy manner since they are logically connected together. When the two IP addresses are present in the same class and are in the same network portion, then they are logically equal to each other.

In class A, the first portion must be the same to be logically the same, and in-class B, the first two portions must be the same to be logically together and in class c, all the first three-network portions should be the same in order to be logically together. When there is a slightly different change, then we can say it as they are not on the same network.