Subnet Mask Construction

• Assign a value of 1 to all the bits in the netid field (i.e. first 8/16/24 bits of Class A/B/C networks)

• Assign a value of 1 to each bit in the subnet field

• Assign a value of 0 to each bit in the hostid field

• Convert to dotted decimal or hexadecimal notation

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