Your firm has an 8-bit network part and an 8-bit subnet part.How many hosts can you have?
A)8
B)16
C)254
D)65,534

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With an 8-bit subnet part, there are 256 possible subnet IDs, but we cannot use the all-0s and all-1s subnets. Therefore, we have 254 subnets available. Each of these subnets can have up to 2^8-2 = 254 hosts, because we need to exclude the network and broadcast addresses. Therefore, the total number of hosts available is 254 x 254 = 65,016.

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