Can someone please tell me the next usable ip address in this address range: 172.20.0.1 - 172.20.31.254?
There is a fundamental problem with the way you worded your question.
You asked for:
"
The next usable ip address in this range"
- Unfortunately this implies you gave us
"
The last usable ip address in this range"
(which you did not)
Based on your wording we are looking for a
NEXT
USEABLE IP ADDRESS
IN THIS RANGE
Unfortunately there is only one range that can be called
"THIS"(172.20.0.1 - 172.20.31.254) and there was no
LAST USEABLE IP ADDRESS defined.
The basic problem with the wording you gave is that the answer you gave has to satisfy three conditions for an ip address:
It has to be in the 172.20.0.1 - 172.20.31.254 range
It has to be "usable"
It has to be "The NEXT"
Within those three conditions the first condition is given. All ip addresses within that range are usable so the second condition is satisfied by the entire range. The third condition however is not possible to satisfy because not enough information was given.
On the other hand if you were looking for the first usable address in the next range that would be 172.20.32.1
I'm not sure that helped you at all try examining your question and re-wording it and I'll see if I can help.
A word of caution however I only point this out because word modifiers are KEY in knowing which information a question is asking for. Many times subnetting questions are modified by constraints such as:
First
Last
Within
Usable
Broadcast
Subnet ID
Next
Greater than
Less than
Optimum
Least hosts per subnet
Most hosts per subnet
Most subnets
Fewest subnets
Zero Subnet allowed
Zero Subnet Disallowed
