Question

A company is assigned a class C address: 223.191.67.0. The company has 300 employees. Each employee is assigned a company computer.

Is the class C address assigned to the company sufficient to assign each employee’s computer a unique IP address?

Answer 1

No, the class C address assigned to the company is not sufficient to assign each employee's computer a unique IP address.

Step-by-step explanation:

The company is assigned a class C IP address: 223.191.67.0. A class C address gives a total of 256 possible addresses. However, the first address (223.191.67.0) is reserved as a network address and the last address (223.191.67.255) is reserved as a broadcast address. So, in reality, there are only 254 usable IP addresses within the class C network.

In this case, the company has 300 employees. Since 254 is less than 300, the class C address assigned to the company is not sufficient to assign each employee's computer a unique IP address.

An alternative solution would be to use network address translation (NAT) to map multiple private IP addresses to a single public IP address, allowing the company to have more devices connected to the internet than the number of available public IP addresses.