i) There is 1 x LAN connected to router R1 and 1 x LAN connected to router R2. 1 x subnet will therefore be required to service the host requirements of each LAN. Additionally, a subnet will be required for the link between routers R1 and R2 and so 3 subnets in total will need to be created from the network address 192.168.1.0/24. However, the question suggests that rather than needing a maximum of 4 subnets with larger host address capability – which is the smallest number of subnets possible to accommodate 3 subnets using the formula 2^n (where n = the number of bits borrowed) – a larger amount of subnets but with the smallest number of hosts per subnet, is preferable. In this case R2LAN has the largest requirement of 30 hosts, and if all subnets are all to be of equal size, the smallest number of hosts per subnet is therefore 30.
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