Given an ip address 172.16.28.252 with a subnet mask of 255.255.240.0, what is the correct network address?

172.16.16.0 is the network address.

255.255.240.0 -> 8 bits (from last octet) + [ 255 - 240 = ( 15 => 1 + 2 + 4 + 8 ) ] I'll take 4 bits "borrow" from third octet = have total 12 bits for hosts!

Thus: 32 bits - 12 bits = /20 VLSM with 4094 hosts can be subnetting in 16 subnets

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