Question source Problem: Your company has been assigned the following IP address: 192.112.136.0 /27 Your group has been assigned the fourth subnet. Question 5: How many useable subnets are available for assignment? Why the answer is 6? I would shoot it's 8 , because 255/32 = 8. More generally - what is an correct algorithm to compute the number of available subnetworks for the same mask?