Analysis with Easy Masks
With three easy subnet masks in particular, finding the subnet ID and subnet broadcast address requires only easy logic and literally no math. Three easy masks exist:
255.0.0.0
255.255.0.0
255.255.255.0
These easy masks have only 255 and 0 in decimal. In comparison, difficult masks have one octet that has neither a 255 nor a 0 in the mask, which makes the logic more challenging.
Note
The terms easy mask and difficult mask are terms created for use in this book to describe the masks and the level of difficulty when working with each.
When the problem uses an easy mask, you can quickly find the subnet ID based on the IP address and mask in DDN format. Just use the following process for each of the four octets to find ...
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