Making subnets

7. Making Subnets Suppose you are in charge of the address space 128.66.32.0/ 24 and you decide you would like to divide your network into 16 subnetworks... a. How many bits must you borrow from the host portion to make 16 subnets? b. How many bits are left for hosts? c. Write the first 7 subnet addresses in dotted decimal form: What is the IP address of the first and last host (highest numbered host) in the first subnet? d. e. How many hosts all together can be assigned addresses in this subnetted network? f. How many hosts could you assign addresses to in the original /24 network? g. Why aren't the number of hosts equal in (e) and (1)? h. Why would you want to create these smaller subnets