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What is the Cisco recommended number of hosts per VLAN/segment?

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Question added by Syed Javed , it consultant , Infosys
Date Posted: 2018/01/06
Syed Muhammad Danish Shahab
by Syed Muhammad Danish Shahab , Network Manger , Liaquat National Medical College and Hospital

Cisco recommends Not More than 254 Hosts

500 Hosts for Internet Protocol & 250 for else.

NARAYANANNAMBOOTHIRI Mankulam
by NARAYANANNAMBOOTHIRI Mankulam , Senior IT Engineer (Senior Information Technology Assistant) , Xervon Industrial services L.L.C

200 Hosts in a VLAN Segment

zahid khan
by zahid khan , Network Administrator , Government Department

Five Hundred host per VLAN segment

Mohd AKRAM JAWED
by Mohd AKRAM JAWED , NewTech Engicon PVT LTD Delhi

IP ONLY NETWORK UPTO 500 HOSTS

MIXED ENVIRONMENT UP YO 250 HOSTS

GENERALLY MOST PEOPLE GO FOR 200 RULE AND USE 24 BIT MASKS

Suneel Munir
by Suneel Munir , Technical Support Assistant , UMT

Depend on Network Type Which Schime Used 

Iftikhar Bacha
by Iftikhar Bacha , Implementation Quality Assurance Expert , Ooredoo - Oman

Two Hundreed Host per VLAN

Mohammad Yasin
by Mohammad Yasin , Desktop Support Engg , Progressive Info vision Pvt. Ltd

In my network most of our VLANs are either /24's or /25's but we do have one /23 (510 devices for each vlan). 

Yaser Imtiaz
by Yaser Imtiaz , IT Specialist , Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd.

200 Host Per VLAN / Segment

Mohammad Faiz Ovais
by Mohammad Faiz Ovais , Network Engineer

200 Host per VLAN, using 24 subnet mask

Akram Tauheed
by Akram Tauheed , Network Administrator , Manxsys

Ther is no Open Standard For Numer of Host Recomended by Cisco ,But its Depend on Topology .

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