How many network and host bits are available for class C IP address?

By default Class C subnet mask is 255.255.255.0 = 24 bits for network id and 8 bits for host id. in Binary 1111 1111. 1111 1111. 1111 1111. 0000 0000 Here all 1s are Network bits and all 0s are host bits. For this subnet mask you can have 256 hosts. And you can use 254 host and asign IP address to them. By Saurabh