John Oliver wrote:
I remember when I was completely mystified by subnetting. IIRC, what tipped me over the edge and made it the most obvious thing in the world was "Teach Yourself TCP/IP in 24 Hours" by SAMS Publishing, I think it was.
I think subnetting might be more easily understood if we did not represent IP's in decimal. Not representing them in hex (like ipv6) turned out to be a big mistake. Not only is it harder to understand the relationship between our base 10 IP's and base 2 netmasks (which we also tend to represent in base 10) but have you seen the regex for validating that an IP is a valid IP? What a mess.
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