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172.16.32.0/20 4,094 usable hosts
Network address
172.16.32.0
Broadcast address
172.16.47.255
First usable host
172.16.32.1
Last usable host
172.16.47.254
Usable hosts
4,094
Total addresses
4,096
Subnet mask
255.255.240.0
Wildcard mask
0.0.15.255
CIDR notation
172.16.32.0/20
Address range
172.16.32.0 – 172.16.47.255
Class
B
Scope
Private (RFC 1918)
Mask in binary
11111111.11111111.11110000.00000000
Address in binary
10101100.00010000.00100000.01100100
Subnets of /26
64
Usable hosts in each
62
Smallest block for 50 hosts
/26

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Local · RFC 1918, CGNAT and link-local flagged
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Takes an address with a CIDR prefix and expands it: the network it belongs to, its usable range, its mask, and whether the address is public, private or reserved.

How to use the ip cidr calculator

1 Enter the address and prefix.
2 Read the network it belongs to.
3 Check the scope row to see whether it is routable.

The question this answers most often is "which network is this address actually in", and the answer surprises people whenever the prefix is not a multiple of eight. 172.16.32.100/20 is in 172.16.32.0/20, which runs to 172.16.47.255 — the third octet boundary lands on 32 and 48 because a /20 leaves four bits of the third octet for hosts.

The scope row is the practically useful one. RFC 1918 reserves 10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12 and 192.168.0.0/16 for private use, and the 172 range is the one people get wrong: it is 172.16 through 172.31, not all of 172. Two other blocks come up regularly — 169.254.0.0/16 is the link-local range a machine assigns itself when DHCP fails, so seeing one is a diagnosis rather than a configuration, and 100.64.0.0/10 is carrier-grade NAT, which is why a home router can report a "public" address that is not reachable from outside.

Everything is calculated locally, which matters here: this is the tool you want when working on an isolated network with no route to anywhere.

Questions

172.16 through 172.31 only — that is a /12. 172.15 and 172.32 are public.

RFC 1918 — Address allocation for private internetsRFC 6598 — Reserved IPv4 prefix for shared address spaceRFC 3927 — Dynamic configuration of IPv4 link-local addresses
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