{"id":189079,"date":"2025-02-08T18:08:12","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T18:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/?p=189079"},"modified":"2025-02-08T18:08:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T18:08:15","slug":"your-router-has-the-following-ip-address-on-ethernet0-172-16-2-1-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/08\/your-router-has-the-following-ip-address-on-ethernet0-172-16-2-1-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Your router has the following IP address on Ethernet0: 172.16.2.1\/23"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Your router has the following IP address on Ethernet0: 172.16.2.1\/23. Which of the following can be valid host IDs on the LAN interface attached to the router?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>172.16.1.100<br>172.16.1.198<br>172.16.2.255<br>172.16.3.0<br>A. 1 only<br>B. 2 and 3 only<br>C. 3 and 4 only<br>D. None of the above<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-ast-global-color-6-color\"><strong>The Correct Answer and Explanation is :<\/strong><\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The correct answer is <strong>A. 1 only<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Explanation:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s break down the provided IP address and subnet mask to determine which of the given host IDs are valid for the LAN interface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>IP Address<\/strong>: 172.16.2.1<br><strong>Subnet Mask<\/strong>: \/23 The subnet mask of \/23 corresponds to a netmask of <strong>255.255.254.0<\/strong>. This means the first 23 bits of the IP address are used for the network portion, and the remaining 9 bits are used for the host portion. To understand the range of valid host IDs, let&#8217;s first look at the network address range. With the \/23 subnet:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The <strong>network address<\/strong> for the subnet would be <strong>172.16.2.0<\/strong> (the first address in the range).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The <strong>broadcast address<\/strong> for the subnet would be <strong>172.16.3.255<\/strong> (the last address in the range). So, the valid range of host IPs within this subnet would be from <strong>172.16.2.1<\/strong> to <strong>172.16.3.254<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Evaluating the given IPs:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>172.16.1.100<\/strong>: This IP is in a different subnet. It&#8217;s part of the <strong>172.16.0.0\/23<\/strong> range, which is not part of the <strong>172.16.2.0\/23<\/strong> network. Thus, it cannot be a valid host ID in the given LAN.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>172.16.1.198<\/strong>: This IP is also in the <strong>172.16.0.0\/23<\/strong> subnet, not the <strong>172.16.2.0\/23<\/strong> subnet. It is not a valid host ID on the current LAN.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>172.16.2.255<\/strong>: This is the <strong>broadcast address<\/strong> for the <strong>172.16.2.0\/23<\/strong> network. Broadcast addresses cannot be assigned to hosts, so this is not a valid host ID.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>172.16.3.0<\/strong>: This is the <strong>network address<\/strong> for the <strong>172.16.3.0\/23<\/strong> subnet. Network addresses are not assignable to hosts, so this is not a valid host ID.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Conclusion:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The only valid host ID in the given options that falls within the range of the <strong>172.16.2.1 &#8211; 172.16.3.254<\/strong> range is <strong>172.16.1.100<\/strong>, which is outside this range, making none of the valid answers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your router has the following IP address on Ethernet0: 172.16.2.1\/23. Which of the following can be valid host IDs on the LAN interface attached to the router? 172.16.1.100172.16.1.198172.16.2.255172.16.3.0A. 1 onlyB. 2 and 3 onlyC. 3 and 4 onlyD. None of the above The Correct Answer and Explanation is : The correct answer is A. 1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exams-certification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}