Question 4 Assume that you are working for a large corporation that is using the

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Question 4 Assume that you are working for a large corporation that is using the private IP wants to be able to accommodate at least 30 departments with a maximum number of address range 172.20.0.0/16 for its internal network. The company management 2000 hosts per department. You are requested to design the network layout a) What is the maximum number of departments that the company can accommodate? Explain the logic of your answer. What subnet mask will need to be used? 10 MARKS b) What are the valid host addresses on the first subnet?7 MARKS c) What is the network and broadcast address for the last available subnet? 8 MARKS

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We can commodate all the departments as total we have

so if we use /21 that is  Netmask: 255.255.248.0, where we have valid 2046 hosts per network and consumes 2048 ips so we have 2048 * 30 = 61440 that is well below the max of 65534

for first net

and for last network

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