When determining the number of hosts you can have, why must you subtract two from the total that appears to be possible?

What will be an ideal response?


Because the host can't use all zeroes or all ones (those are reserved for the network ID and broadcast IP, respectively), you subtract two from the final number to get the available host IDs.
 

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