Appendix D. IP Addressing Practice

Chapter 4, “IP Addressing,” in CCIE Routing and Switching v5.0 Official Cert Guide, Volume 1, covers many details related to analyzing IP addresses, subnets, and summarized IP routes. That chapter suggests some decimal math algorithms that allow you to find the answers to some typical questions without having to perform time-consuming conversions between binary and decimal.

As promised in Chapter 4, this appendix provides some practice problems that should help you perfect the use of the algorithms in Chapter 4. Note that the goal of this practice is not to make you memorize the algorithms. Instead, the goal is to help you become so familiar with the patterns in the decimal math that you can look at a problem ...

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