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How many IPv6 subnets should you identify?

You are configuring the IPv6 network infrastructurefor a branch office.
The corporate network administrator allocates the 2001:DB8:0:C000::/58 address space for use in the branch
office.
You need to identify the maximum number of IPv6 subnets you can create.
How many IPv6 subnets should you identify?

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A.
32

B.
64

C.
128

D.
1024

10 Comments on “How many IPv6 subnets should you identify?

  1. Imi says:

    Confirmed.

    Prefixlen # blocks # /64 subnets per block
    48 1 65,536
    49 2 32,768
    50 4 16,384
    51 8 8,192
    52 16 4,096
    53 32 2,048
    54 64 1,024
    55 128 512
    56 256 256
    57 512 128
    58 1,024 64
    59 2,048 32
    60 4,096 16
    61 8,192 8
    62 16,384 4
    63 32,768 2
    64 65,536 1




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    1. Gdog says:

      yes thank you for helping me Syed
      the subnet mask part of an ipv6 address is the fourth hextet this ranges from bits /48 to /64
      /58 bits are already used for the base address so we have 64-58= 6 bits left for for the new subnets
      2 to the power of 6 = 64 subnets




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