The main problem with the question is that the ISP allocates a IP range
that is within the private reserved IP range. That of course makes no
sence. Technicaly it doesnt matter if you assume its a public range or
private. However it is an example of a badly written question.

On Sun, 2002-08-18 at 11:26, James Lee Bell wrote:
> Oh, and as far as a company only needing to "realisticly" use 3 of the 
> 254 available hosts in that class C, lots of places use and/or require 
> the use of real ip addresses instead of NATing them, depending on 
> whether a required application is NAT friendly or not, and whether they 
> have enough address space, etc.
> 
> Kevin Brown wrote:
> 
> >>The test content is easy, but I cant beleive some of these questions...
> >>I guess Micro$oft's way of rasing the bar on their tests is making them
> >>progressivly worse written. I biched about this the last test but damnit
> >>this is insane!  I am staring at a test question right now that makes no
> >>sence, in their senario they have an ISP give an entire class C of
> >>internet addresses (255) to a office of 100 computers, the ip address
> >>range isnt a valid range for internet use, a company that size
> >>realisticly wouldent use more than 3 of the 255, and they specify a 24
> >>bit subnet or 255.255.255.0 . Then after giving you all this completely
> >>bogus info they ask an off the wall question like what subnet mask you
> >>would use for your network if you wanted 10 subnets and 10 hosts per
> >>subnet.  Even if that did make sence to do, they already specified the
> >>subnet mask as 24 bits. So you have to just guess at what they are
> >>actually getting at.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Welcome to Microsoft logic.  Of course a class C can be further divided down
> >into smaller subnets (ASU divides two class Bs into 64 address chunks
> >[255.255.255.192]).  So the network would need to be divided into at least 12
> >IPs per subnet from the class C.  Wish I had that subnet calculator program that
> >was on my system at work.  Makes figuring this out so much easier.
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Thank god for Braindumps, if I dident have these I fear the only way to
> >>pass these tests would be to stick a crayon in my brain.
> >>
> >>Cisco's tests are actually well written. This is probably one good
> >>reason why theres so many "Paper MCSE's" around, They get out in the
> >>feild and dont have any grasp on the right way to do things. But then
> >>again if people had a grasp on the right way of doing things there would
> >>be more *nix and less windows.
> >>
> >>Latter!
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> 
> 
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