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Sometime Today, Satya assembled some asciibets to say:
> A=0....
> B=10....
> C=110....
>
> Okay, so why are the netmasks like that?
The netmasks tell you where the network number ends and the machine number
starts.
255.0.0.0 means first 8 bits are network number, remaining 24 bits are
machine number
255.255.0.0 means first 16 and last 16
255.255.255.127 means first 25 and last 7
Philip
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