Subnetting Made Easy - Formula

I covered subnetting in my earlier posts, Subnetting Made Easy, Part 1 and Subnetting Made Easy, Part 2.

In the latter mentioned post, I explained how you can use simple additions or subtractions to work out the First Usable Address, the Last Usable Address and the Broadcast Address of a subnet.

As the post was quite long, I thought I should re post the formulas in case they got lost in the sea of text.

Here they are:

• First Address = Network Address + 1
• Broadcast Address = Next Network Address - 1
• Last Address = Broadcast Address - 1

If they make no sense to you, please re-read my previous posts for more information.

Other Posts in this Series:

See the Subnetting Made Easy - Index post for links to all of the posts in this series.

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