Re: Newbie Questions Part 1

[Ray Olszewski <ray@comarre.com>]

IT's a shorter way of writing the subnet masks -- specifies the number of
(binary) ones in its representation. So ...

        /8      =       255.0.0.0
        /12     =       255.240.0.0
        /16     =       255.255.0.0

At 03:36 PM 11/8/00 +0000, Michael Boyd wrote:
>Ray Olszewski wrote:-
>
>> If by "such as" you mean to refer to the private address ranges (10.0.0.0/8,
>> 172.16.0.0/12, and 192.168.0.0/16), then there is nothing at all wrong with
>> using them. They are intended for use in exactly these kinds of situation.
>
>Could you tell me what the number after the IP addr. signifies, i.e. /8
>/12 and /16 ?


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