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Supernetting question - ftaran - 04-05-2009
© An organisation is to set up a network that supports 2000 hosts. The Internet router attached to the organisation?s gateway (219.138.120.1) has the following entries in its routing table:
219.138.120.0 255.255.255.0 219.138.120.1
219.138.121.0 255.255.255.0 219.138.120.1
219.138.122.0 255.255.255.0 219.138.120.1
219.138.123.0 255.255.255.0 219.138.120.1
219.138.124.0 255.255.255.0 219.138.120.1
219.138.125.0 255.255.255.0 219.138.120.1
219.138.126.0 255.255.255.0 219.138.120.1
219.138.127.0 255.255.255.0 219.138.120.1
(i) What are the reasons for allocating eight Class C addresses rather than a single Class B address?
(ii) What inefficiency would result from having eight network addresses point to the same network?
(iii) What is the solution to solve the inefficiency?