ip scheme!could anybody tell me which ip address and subnet to use for this project!?

Question

Each department must be set up on its own subnet. All internal addressing is to be done using private IP addressing. The company has been assigned a single class “C”block of addresses for access to the Internet. All devices that are accessed by more that one department must be located on a single shared private subnet. Devices that need to be
connected to the Internet must be on a subnet with public IP addresses. That subnet will have to be allocated from the public addresses assigned to the company.(in this case we have 176 computers and 52 printers)

Answer 1

if you can't figure out something simple like this on your own, good luck passing the class.

Answer 2

Ditto. Simple problem. You have less than 254 devices, so just about any addressing scheme would work. But, since you'll be planning for expansion, I'd use the 10.0.0.1/16 private addressing scheme. That would give you up to 254 seperate subnets, each with 65000+ possible devices; WAY more than you need and enough to provide for tons of expansion without having to change the address scheme. Set up the private subnets in order; 10.1.xxx.xxx; 10.2.xxx.xxx, etc. Have all your internet-direct devices on a separate subnet in your class C range, with routers to each subnet that needs access to them.

Heck... there's a hundred ways to do this. Your proff. is probably looking for an answer in the 192.168.0.1/20 range, but why bother?