Thursday, November 19, 2009

Prefix and Subnet

Number of Usable IP addresses
Prefix Subnet mask binary form Total IPs Usable IPs
/32 255.255.255.255 11111111.11111111.11111111.11111111 XX XX
/31 255.255.255.254 11111111.11111111.11111111.11111110 2 XX
/30 255.255.255.252 11111111.11111111.11111111.11111100 4 2
/29 255.255.255.248 11111111.11111111.11111111.11111000 8 6
/28 255.255.255.240 11111111.11111111.11111111.11110000 16 14
/27 255.255.255.224 11111111.11111111.11111111.11100000 32 30
/26 255.255.255.192 11111111.11111111.11111111.11000000 64 62
/25 255.255.255.128 11111111.11111111.11111111.10000000 128 126
/24 255.255.255.0 11111111.11111111.11111111.00000000 256 254
/23 255.255.254.0 11111111.11111111.11111110.00000000 512 510
/22 255.255.252.0 11111111.11111111.11111100.00000000 1024 1022
/21 255.255.248.0 11111111.11111111.11111000.00000000 2048 2046
/20 255.255.240.0 11111111.11111111.11110000.00000000 4096 4094
/19 255.255.224.0 11111111.11111111.11100000.00000000 8192 8190
/18 and so on ... ...

***Subnet mask will begin with series of '1' and end with series of  '0', there will not be combination of '1' between '0' and '0' between '1'.
***Total IPs formula 2 to the power of n where n is equal to the number of '1'
***Usable IPs = Total IPs - 2 (2 IPs is due to network and broadcast address)

Friday, November 13, 2009

Switch Password Reset


Press mode button when powered-up

Screen saying password-recovery mechanism started

flash_init

load_helper

dir flash:

rename flash:config.txt flash:config.bak

boot

no to initial configuration dialog

enable

rename flash:config.bak config.txt

copy flash:config.txt system:running-config

copy running-config startup-config