> Are you telling me that if I am using two additional bits for the subnet
> and want to have 4 subnets I will be wasting 64+64 =128 ips all together
> and will only get 128 ips left. Are you sure. That is a hell of a lot of
> waste of ips, then what is the point of subnetting. I think that I will
> only be wasting 2 ips for each subnet one for the network and one for the
> broadcast making total of 8 ips.
That used to be the case, but it generally isn't nowadays. However (as
has already been pointed out) you may need to explicitly tell the
router that the .0 and .192 subnets are valid.
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