At 09:09 AM 4/14/00 -0600, Matthew McCleary wrote:
>I was wondering if someone could tell me, what does it mean when someone
>writes an IP address as something like "192.168.1.0/24" ? What does the
>"/24" mean? I kind of got the impression that it implies that they own
>IP's 1 through 24, but maybe not. Could it be some sort of netmask?
Yes, it is a netmask. Netmasks consist (in binary representation) of some
number of ones, followed by some number of zeros, with the two numbers
adding to 32. The 1s identify the "network" portion of the address, the 0s
the "host" portion.
A 24-bit netmask is 24 1s followed by 8 0s, or (in dotted-quad
representation) the familiar 255.255.255.0 .
------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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