Hello,
I have confusion about Host addresses. For example an IP address 192.168.0.1 with subnet make 255.255.255.0 have 256 host addresses and from these only 254 are usable. It is cleared that 192.168.0.255 is a broadcast address. But what is network address and default gateway? Is 192.168.0.0 but where do we use this address? Default gateway as we know is 192.168.0.1 but it must not be one it could be any Ip address.
Normally 192.168.0 is network part, but why we say 192.168.0.0 is network address?
If 192.168.0.0, 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.255 are reserved then why do we say 254 hosts are usable?
Please help..
Thanks
I have confusion about Host addresses. For example an IP address 192.168.0.1 with subnet make 255.255.255.0 have 256 host addresses and from these only 254 are usable. It is cleared that 192.168.0.255 is a broadcast address. But what is network address and default gateway? Is 192.168.0.0 but where do we use this address? Default gateway as we know is 192.168.0.1 but it must not be one it could be any Ip address.
Normally 192.168.0 is network part, but why we say 192.168.0.0 is network address?
If 192.168.0.0, 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.255 are reserved then why do we say 254 hosts are usable?
Please help..
Thanks