Leslie, an IP address that is followed by a slash and a number is a CIDR address. It can refer to an entire block of IP addresses. The number following the IP address is the size of the bitmask. In your example it would be 8 bits.
IP V4 addresses (which is what most of us are familiar with) are 32 bit addresses that are typically represented as four numbers separated by dots. Each dotted number represents 8 bits of the address. So an address like 192.168.1.0/8 represents the addresses from 192.168.1.1 through 192.168.1.255. 192.168.0.0/16 would be the larger block of addresses from 192.168.0.1 through 192.168.255.255. I hope this helps to illustrate the pattern. You can get more detail on the wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classless_Inter-Domain_Routing Dan Leslie Satenstein wrote: > Implementing this idea would have to be a hobby activity. But, as a > junior in linux experience, I would love a "coaches corner" where I > could ask newbie or stupid questions. > > For example can someone explain what the slash 8 is in the case > where there is an assignment to localhost as in 127.0.0.1/8 > > I know what it means when we would do localhost:portno but what > about localhost/8 and can you have both portno and slash8 on the same > line. > > *------------------ > > * > > Regards > > * > Mr. Leslie > * > *Leslie Satenstein > * > > mailto:[email protected] > mailto [email protected] > www.itbms.biz > > > --- On *Wed, 11/18/09, Valery Shaevitch /<[email protected]>/* wrote: > > > From: Valery Shaevitch <[email protected]> > Subject: [MLUG] My little 2 cents [INITIATIVE] > To: "Group" <[email protected]> > Date: Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 1:26 AM > > > Hello, my felow mlugers, > > I am here about 6 years already [well, was not very active thouhg] > Well, I was looking through many different problems, solutions, > programming so on ... and distributions > > And I think why wouldn't we get some other, our distribution, that > would > not only fit our needs, but also promote Canada and Montreal as a > great > technology place... We are great country, but still fighting with > these > elephant businesses as Bell, Rogers, Microsoft ... so you name it, you > know > > These are my 2 cents to start it > > Any thoughts ? > > Valery > > _______________________________________________ > mlug mailing list > [email protected] </mc/[email protected]> > https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > mlug mailing list > [email protected] > https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca > _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
