IPv4 Address Classes
Class | First Octet Values | Purpose |
A | 1 – 126 | Unicast (large networks) |
B | 128 – 191 | Unicast (medium-sized networks) |
C | 192 – 223 | Unicast (small networks) |
D | 224 – 239 | Multicast |
E | 240 – 255 | Reserved (formerly experimental) |
- First Octet of 0 or 127: Reserved for Special Uses
Powers of 2
Power | Decimal | Power | Decimal | Power | Decimal |
20 |
1 | 28 | 256 | 216 | 65,536 |
21 | 2 | 29 | 512 | 217 | 131,072 |
22 | 4 | 210 | 1024 | 218 | 262,144 |
23 | 8 | 211 | 2048 | 219 | 524,288 |
24 | 16 | 212 | 4096 | 220 | 1,048,576 |
25 | 32 | 213 | 8192 | 221 | 2,097,152 |
26 | 64 | 214 | 16,384 | 222 | 4,194,304 |
27 | 128 | 215 | 32,768 | 223 | 8,388,608 |
Private IPv4 Networks
Class of Networks | Private IP Networks | Number of Networks |
A | 10.0.0.0 | 1 |
B | 172.16.0.0 through 171.31.0.0 | 16 |
C | 192.168.0.0 through 192.168.255.0 | 256 |
The Nine DDN Octet Values
Decimal Value | Binary | Number of Binary 1’s |
0 | 00000000 | 0 |
128 | 10000000 | 1 |
192 | 11000000 | 2 |
224 | 11100000 | 3 |
240 | 11110000 | 4 |
248 | 11111000 | 5 |
252 | 11111100 | 6 |
254 | 11111110 | 7 |
255 | 11111111 | 8 |
Speed Goals and Learning Stages
Subnetting Processes | Book Speed Goals | Your Speed Goal | Your Current Speed | Your Current Stage |
Find Classful Network Facts * | 10 | |||
Convert Mask Formats * | 10 | |||
Find Subnet Facts | 30 | |||
Interpret Design w/ Mask | 15 | |||
Choose One Mask | 15 | |||
Find All Subnet IDs * | 45 |
- Excludes the time required to write all the answers on paper.
Binary-to-Decimal Conversion Chart: Decimal 0 – 127
Decimal | Binary | Decimal | Binary | Decimal | Binary | Decimal | Binary |
0 | 00000000 | 32 | 00100000 | 64 | 01000000 | 96 | 01100000 |
1 | 00000001 | 33 | 00100001 | 65 | 01000001 | 97 | 01100001 |
2 | 00000010 | 34 | 00100010 | 66 | 01000010 | 98 | 01100010 |
3 | 00000011 | 35 | 00100011 | 67 | 01000011 | 99 | 01100011 |
4 | 00000100 | 36 | 00100100 | 68 | 01000100 | 100 | 01100100 |
5 | 00000101 | 37 | 00100101 | 69 | 01000101 | 101 | 01100101 |
6 | 00000110 | 38 | 00100110 | 70 | 01000110 | 102 | 01100110 |
7 | 00000111 | 39 | 00100111 | 71 | 01000111 | 103 | 01100111 |
8 | 00001000 | 40 | 00101000 | 72 | 01001000 | 104 | 01101000 |
9 | 00001001 | 41 | 00101001 | 73 | 01001001 | 105 | 01101001 |
10 | 00001010 | 42 | 00101010 | 74 | 01001010 | 106 | 01101010 |
11 | 00001011 | 43 | 00101011 | 75 | 01001011 | 107 | 01101011 |
12 | 00001100 | 44 | 00101100 | 76 | 01001100 | 108 | 01101100 |
13 | 00001101 | 45 | 00101101 | 77 | 01001101 | 109 | 01101101 |
14 | 00001110 | 46 | 00101110 | 78 | 01001110 | 110 | 01101110 |
15 | 00001111 | 47 | 00101111 | 79 | 01001111 | 111 | 01101111 |
16 | 00010000 | 48 | 00110000 | 80 | 01010000 | 112 | 01110000 |
17 | 00010001 | 49 | 00110001 | 81 | 01010001 | 113 | 01110001 |
18 | 00010010 | 50 | 00110010 | 82 | 01010010 | 114 | 01110010 |
19 | 00010011 | 51 | 00110011 | 83 | 01010011 | 115 | 01110011 |
20 | 00010100 | 52 | 00110100 | 84 | 01010100 | 116 | 01110100 |
21 | 00010101 | 53 | 00110101 | 85 | 01010101 | 117 | 01110101 |
22 | 00010110 | 54 | 00110110 | 86 | 01010110 | 118 | 01110110 |
23 | 00010111 | 55 | 00110111 | 87 | 01010111 | 119 | 01110111 |
24 | 00011000 | 56 | 00111000 | 88 | 01011000 | 120 | 01111000 |
25 | 00011001 | 57 | 00111001 | 89 | 01011001 | 121 | 01111001 |
26 | 00011010 | 58 | 00111010 | 90 | 01011010 | 122 | 01111010 |
27 | 00011011 | 59 | 00111011 | 91 | 01011011 | 123 | 01111011 |
28 | 00011100 | 60 | 00111100 | 92 | 01011100 | 124 | 01111100 |
29 | 00011101 | 61 | 00111101 | 93 | 01011101 | 125 | 01111101 |
30 | 00011110 | 62 | 00111110 | 94 | 01011110 | 126 | 01111110 |
31 | 00011111 | 63 | 00111111 | 95 | 01011111 | 127 | 01111111 |
Binary-to-Decimal Conversion Chart: Decimal 128 – 255
Decimal | Binary | Decimal | Binary | Decimal | Binary | Decimal | Binary |
128 | 10000000 | 160 | 10100000 | 192 | 11000000 | 224 | 11100000 |
129 | 10000001 | 161 | 10100001 | 193 | 11000001 | 225 | 11100001 |
130 | 10000010 | 162 | 10100010 | 194 | 11000010 | 226 | 11100010 |
131 | 10000011 | 163 | 10100011 | 195 | 11000011 | 227 | 11100011 |
132 | 10000100 | 164 | 10100100 | 196 | 11000100 | 228 | 11100100 |
133 | 10000101 | 165 | 10100101 | 197 | 11000101 | 229 | 11100101 |
134 | 10000110 | 166 | 10100110 | 198 | 11000110 | 230 | 11100110 |
135 | 10000111 | 167 | 10100111 | 199 | 11000111 | 231 | 11100111 |
136 | 10001000 | 168 | 10101000 | 200 | 11001000 | 232 | 11101000 |
137 | 10001001 | 169 | 10101001 | 201 | 11001001 | 233 | 11101001 |
138 | 10001010 | 170 | 10101010 | 202 | 11001010 | 234 | 11101010 |
139 | 10001011 | 171 | 10101011 | 203 | 11001011 | 235 | 11101011 |
140 | 10001100 | 172 | 10101100 | 204 | 11001100 | 236 | 11101100 |
141 | 10001101 | 173 | 10101101 | 205 | 11001101 | 237 | 11101101 |
142 | 10001110 | 174 | 10101110 | 206 | 11001110 | 238 | 11101110 |
143 | 10001111 | 175 | 10101111 | 207 | 11001111 | 239 | 11101111 |
144 | 10010000 | 176 | 10110000 | 208 | 11010000 | 240 | 11110000 |
145 | 10010001 | 177 | 10110001 | 209 | 11010001 | 241 | 11110001 |
146 | 10010010 | 178 | 10110010 | 210 | 11010010 | 242 | 11110010 |
147 | 10010011 | 179 | 10110011 | 211 | 11010011 | 243 | 11110011 |
148 | 10010100 | 180 | 10110100 | 212 | 11010100 | 244 | 11110100 |
149 | 10010101 | 181 | 10110101 | 213 | 11010101 | 245 | 11110101 |
150 | 10010110 | 182 | 10110110 | 214 | 11010110 | 246 | 11110110 |
151 | 10010111 | 183 | 10110111 | 215 | 11010111 | 247 | 11110111 |
152 | 10011000 | 184 | 10111000 | 216 | 11011000 | 248 | 11111000 |
153 | 10011001 | 185 | 10111001 | 217 | 11011001 | 249 | 11111001 |
154 | 10011010 | 186 | 10111010 | 218 | 11011010 | 250 | 11111010 |
155 | 10011011 | 187 | 10111011 | 219 | 11011011 | 251 | 11111011 |
156 | 10011100 | 188 | 10111100 | 220 | 11011100 | 252 | 11111100 |
157 | 10011101 | 189 | 10111101 | 221 | 11011101 | 253 | 11111101 |
158 | 10011110 | 190 | 10111110 | 222 | 11011110 | 254 | 11111110 |
159 | 10011111 | 191 | 10111111 | 223 | 11011111 | 255 | 11111111 |
http://wourl.io/subnet – A page about all IP Subnetting learning options from Wendell
http://wourl.io/subnet-exercises – A page listing all the exercises in the live course “IP Subnetting from Beginning to Mastery” at O’Reilly Learning
http://wourl.io/subnet-classnotes – This page of notes related to the live course “IP Subnetting from Beginning to Mastery” at O’Reilly Learning
http://wourl.io/subnet-video – A link to the recorded video product “IP Subnetting from Beginning to Mastery” at O’Reilly Learning
http://wourl.io/subnet-qa – A link to the question/answer product “IP Subnetting Video and Practice Questions Kit” at O’Reilly Learning
http://wourl.io/subnet-book – A link to the eBook “CCNA 200-301 Official Cert Guide, Volume 1”, at O’Reilly Learning, which contains Chapters 11-14 about IP Subnetting
Cisco Certification Portal: (www.cisco.com/go/certifications)
Cisco Pages on the “New” 2020 Certifications
Cisco CCNA 200-301 Info and Exam Topics Page
Cisco CCNA Routing and Switching Page
Cisco Learning Network (CLN): The Cisco Learning Network (CLN) is the best learning community to use when learning for CCNA.
Cisco Recertification Requirements: As of Feb 24, 2020.
Take Cisco Exams from Home: Details of how to take the exam from home.
CCNA 200-301 Official Cert Guide, Volume 1, on O’Reilly (Safari)
CCNA 200-301 Official Cert Guide, Volume 2, on O’Reilly (Safari)
CCNA 200-301 Official Cert Guide, Volume 1, on CiscoPress.com
CCNA 200-301 Official Cert Guide, Volume 2, on CiscoPress.com
CCNA 200-301 Official Cert Guide Library (Contains Both Volumes) on CiscoPress.com
The CCNA Official Cert Guides come with practice questions. You can use some of those practice questions at Safari (O’Reilly Online), and for others you must purchase the book(s). In particular:
- The Safari offering includes all four CCNA Exam banks found in some of the books.
- The Premium Edition eBook products from Cisco Press, namely the CCNA Vol 2 Premium Edition and the CCNA Library Premium Edition, include those same four CCNA exam banks.
- The CCNA Vol 1 and CCNA Vol 2 books include other exam banks: one with all the questions from the chapter pre-quizzes, one with part review questions, and others that cover only the content in that book but not the other volume.
- The print books include two exam banks, rather than four, for the general question types.
Links:
CCNA Questions from Premium Edition CCNA Library, on O’Reilly (Safari)
CCNA 200-301 Official Cert Guide, Volume 1, on CiscoPress.com
CCNA 200-301 Official Cert Guide, Volume 2, on CiscoPress.com
CCNA 200-301 Official Cert Guide Library (Contains Both Volumes) on CiscoPress.com
Premium Edition of CCNA 200-301 Official Cert Guide, Volume 1, on CiscoPress.com
Premium Edition of CCNA 200-301 Official Cert Guide, Volume 2, on CiscoPress.com
Premium Edition of CCNA 200-301 Official Cert Guide Library (Includes Both Vol 1 and 2), on CiscoPress.com
Wendell’s CCNA Blog: A large variety of content about CCNA Content from over the last eight years.
Config Labs for CCNA 200-301: Short configuration exercises for which you do not even need a simulator – just write your config on paper or type in an editor.
Packet Tracer Labs for the Books’ Examples: The blog has a series of posts about how to use Cisco Packet Tracer to re-create examples from the books. Each post matches a book chapter, with a goal of helping you decide which examples can be reasonably done in PT and which ones are probably too difficult to re-create in PT for various reasons.
Pearson Network Simulator: Think of it as like Packet Tracer, but with hundreds of built-in lab exercises, for usually around $100 US.