A network administrator is troubleshooting an addressing issue on a branch office switch. A host computer on VLAN 10 has been manually configured with the IP address and subnet mask . The switch SVI interface serving as the default gateway for VLAN 10 is assigned . The host is unable to ping its default gateway or communicate beyond its local segment. Which statement correctly identifies the cause of this connectivity failure?
- The assigned address is the broadcast address for the subnet and cannot be utilized as a valid host IP address.Cevap
- BThe host address falls outside the RFC 1918 private IPv4 range, causing the private default gateway to drop non-routable public packets.
- CThe default gateway provides a maximum of 62 usable addresses, meaning is the first host address of the next adjacent subnet.
- DThe host IP address and gateway address belong to different subnets because a /26 prefix divides the third octet into 64-host boundaries.
Cevap
The host address 172.25.107.191 is the broadcast address for the 172.25.107.128/26 subnet and is invalid for host assignment.
The correct answer accurately identifies that 172.25.107.191 is the directed broadcast address for the 172.25.107.128/26 network segment. For a /26 prefix, the block size is 64, giving a network ID of 172.25.107.128 and a broadcast ID of 172.25.107.191. Because broadcast addresses cannot be configured as valid unicast endpoints, the host network stack fails to process traffic correctly.
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Subnet Broadcast Address Identification and Usable Host Range Calculation