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----- Original Message -----
From: Philip S Tellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 4:12 PM
Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Netmask
> You have IP addresses: 202.54.1.18, 192.168.0.1, 127.0.0.1,
89.1.1.200
> etc
[snip]
> Now the big question is, how do you figure out what part of an
IP address
> is the network address, and which part is the actual machine
number.
>
> That's where the netmask comes in.
So two different computers on the Internet may have the same IP
address, with different subnet masks? And if not, then what
happens when all the IPs get used (let's say at one time,
there're more clients on the Net than the max possible no. of
IPs)?
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Manish Jethani
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