How do you do the following question?

Question

if a company has a class C IP address and if it wants to have 5 subnets with max of 25 computers on each subnet

1.how do you determine the new subnet mask?

2.how do you calculate the actual numbers of subnets and host in each subnet?

3.how do you determine if the company can subnet as desired?

Please explain this to me because I have been trying to understand this for the past 4 days

Thank you

Answer 1

The joys of subnetting.  This is too big a question to try and answer in this format.  Instead, I'll suggest a web page that does a pretty good job of explaining subnetting in practical terms.

http://www.punkwalrus.com/howto/subnetti...

The short answer is yes, they can subnet their network that way.

Answer 2

Here are some sites to learn and practice subnetting:

http://easysubnet.com/

http://subnettingquestions.com

Answer 3

all u want are here

http://wiki.xtronics.com/index.php/IP_Su...