>>> smac at visi.com 05/13/04 09:13AM >>>
>I do believe (I could be wrong) that address space is less than 255 
>addresses per class C subnet.
>0 to 254 would be 255 addresses for a class C network.

>So 0 to 254, less 0 (as a reserved address) is 254 addresses.

>Some one tell me if I'm mistaken please.

>Sam.

The number of allowed addresses for a given subnet mask is 2^n - 2 (that's two to the nth power minus two).
Where n is the number of bits in the HOST portion of the mask. So, if the mask is 255.255.255.0, then n would be 8.

Bruce


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