Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Institute of Technical Education & Research, SOA, Deemed to be University

WEEK-END ASSIGNMENT-05
Computer Networking Workshop (CSE 4541)

Publish on: 09-03-2024 Submission on: 16-03-2024

Course Outcome: CO1 , CO2 Program Outcome: PO1−3 , PO5 Learning Level: L5

VLSM Network Design, Summarization and IP address Troubleshooting

1. In a block of addresses, we know the IP address of one host is 25.34.12.56/16. Determine the first
address and the last address of this block. Also Verify whether that is a CIDR block or not.
Solution Remark

2. A CIDR block is given as 182.44.82.16/26. Find the first address and the last address in this block.
Solution Remark

3. Asssume a CIDR block is given as 20.30.40.10/25. Divide the block in two subblocks, and find the
first address, last address, subnet mask of each block.
Solution Remark

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4. Asssume a CIDR block is given as 20.30.40.10/25. Divide the block in 4 subblocks, and find the first
address, last address, subnet mask of each block. Also observe the format of subnet mask getting
changes in the subnets.

Solution Remark

5. Consider a Class C IP 200.1.2.0. Design 3 subnets each of IPs 128, 64 and 64 respectively. Find the
range of addresses, subnetwork address, and subnet mask of each subnet. Also observe the change in
the format of subnet masks from the original mask.

Solution Remark

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6. Suppose an organization is given a block of ip addresses 17.12.40.0/26, which contains 64 addresses.

The organization has three offices and needs to divide the addresses into three subblocks of 32, 16,
and 16 addresses. Construct the subnetworks with the first address, last address and subnet mask of
each block. Also conclude whether subnet masks are fixed length or of variable length.
Solution Remark

7. An ISP is granted a block of addresses starting with 190.100.0.0/16 (65,536 addresses). The ISP
needs to distribute these addresses to three groups of customers as follows:
(a) The first group has 64 customers; each needs 256 addresses.
(b) The second group has 128 customers; each needs 128 addresses.
(c) The third group has 128 customers; each needs 64 addresses.
Design the subblocks and find out how many addresses are still available after these allocations.
Solution Remark

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8. An ISP is granted a block of addresses starting with 120.60.4.0/22. The ISP wants to distribute
these blocks to 100 organizations with each organization receiving just eight addresses. Design the
subblocks and give the slash notation for each subblock. Find out how many addresses are still
available after these allocations.
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9. A large number of consecutive IP addresses are available starting at 198.16.0.0. Suppose that four
organizations, A, B, C, and D, request 4000, 2000, 4000, and 8000 addresses, respectively, and in that
order. For each of these, give the first IP address assigned, the last IP address assigned, and the mask
in w.x.y.z/s notation.

Solution Remark

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10. A typical Internetwork is shown in the below figure-1. Construct the routing table (forwarding table)
at the router with the Interface name A, B, C, D and E respectively. A packet addressed to a desti-
nation address 200.150.68.118 arrives at the router R0. Determine the network and the interface to
which the packet will be forwarded. Verify your routing table using Cisco Packet Tracer for the said
Internetwork with the IOS command Router# show ip route.

200.150.64.0/19
Subnet-A
Subnet-B

200.150.68.64/27
Subnet-D
200.150.0.0/16

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B
D
R0 D
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E au
lt
C

Subnet-C
200.150.68.0/24

Figure 1: Four subnets directly connected to the Router R0

Solution as well as Paste the CPT based topology design and routing table Remark

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11. Determine the block size and address range for each subnets in the Class C 192.168.10.0 VLSM
network given below figure-3.

Figure 2: A VLSM network

Solution Remark
Subnetwork Hosts Block Size required Address range

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12. What summary address would cover all the networks shown and advertise a single, efficient route to
Router B that won’t advertise more networks than needed?

Figure 3: A VLSM network

Solution Remark

13. Determine the best summarization of the given networks: 192.168.128.0 through 192.168.159.0.
Solution Remark

14. On a VLSM network, which mask should you use on point-to-point WAN links in order to reduce the
waste of IP addresses?
Answer Remark
(A) /31 (D) /30
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(B) /27 (E) /29

(C) /28 (F) /24

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15. Determine the summary address and the mask to be used that will summarize the subnets.
Answer Remark
(A) 192.168.32.0 through 192.168.63.0 (A)

(B) 192.168.96.0 through 192.168.111.0 (B)

(C) 192.168.128.0 through 192.168.190.0 (C)

(D) 172.144.0.0 through 172.159.0.0 (D)

(E) 192.168.1.0/24 —– 192.168.12.0/24 (E)

16. Find the network addresses correctly summarizes the three networks shown below efficiently.
10.0.0.0/16
10.1.0.0/16
10.2.0.0/16
Solution Remark

17. Assume the following classful configuration (Figure-4) have been performed using CPT. A user in the
sales department informed that it can’t get to Server A in the marketing department and also it has no
rights to log on to server B. Now Find out the reason of not getting the access and also troubleshoot
the problem to get into Server A.
Troubleshooting Remark

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Figure 4: A case of IP address problem

18. A user in the Sales LAN can’t get to ServerB. You have the user run through the four basic trou-
bleshooting steps ( (i) ping to loopback, (ii) ping to local host (iii) ping to default gateway (iv) ping
to remote network ) and find that the host can communicate to the local network but not to the remote
network. Find and define the IP addressing problem. Demonstrate the network shown in Figure-5 in
CPT assuming classful addressing

Troubleshooting Remark

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Figure 5: Verifying IP address configuration

19. A classful IP address at the Router on interface Ethernet0 is 192.168.10.33/27. Determine the IP
address, subnet mask, and valid host range could be assigned to the host.

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Answer Remark
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20. Two computers C1 and C2 are configured as follows. C1 has IP address 203.197.2.53 and netmask
255.255.128.0. C2 has IP address 203.197.75.201 and netmask 255.255.192.0. which one of the
following statements is true? [ GATE 2006]

(a) C1 and C2 both assume they are on the same network

(b) C2 assumes C1 is on same network, but C1 assumes C2 is on a different network
(c) C1 assumes C2 is on same network, but C2 assumes C1 is on a different network
(d) C1 and C2 both assume they are on different networks.

Justify your answer Remark

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21. Consider three machines M, N and P with IP addresses 100.10.5.2, 100.10.5.5 and 100.10.5.6 re-
spectively. The subnet mask is set to 255.255.255.252 for all the three machines. Which one of the
following is true? [ GATE 2019]

(a) M, N and P all belong to the same subnet

(b) Only N and P belong to the same subnet
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(c) M, N, and P belong to three different subnets

(d) Only M and N belong to the same subnet

Justify your answer Remark

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