Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 16:35:24 +0100 From: "Pietro Cerutti" <pietro.cerutti@gmail.com> To: "Huy Ton That" <huyslogic@gmail.com>, freebsd <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 192.168.0.1/24 Message-ID: <e572718c0603070735qbee4481o12eff7d3fd932591@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1cac28080603070729h255c7ee8gfaefd0743814454@mail.gmail.com> References: <1cac28080603070729h255c7ee8gfaefd0743814454@mail.gmail.com>
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On 3/7/06, Huy Ton That <huyslogic@gmail.com> wrote: > Reading the handbook and I've seen /24 appended to an IP address often. = I'm > curious what this exactly means - I don't have strong networking skills; > does this define what ip it goes up to? > > 192.168.0.1 through to 192.168.0.24? No, It's a short notation for the subnet mask. It means "most 24 significant bits set to 1" so, 192.168.0.1/24 means: 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 Oftern it's used to explicitely tell that we're talking about a single IP address: 192.168.0.1/32 Just matter of notation... -- Pietro Cerutti <pietro.cerutti@gmail.com> Non lasciar calpestare i TUOI diritti! Don't let 'em take YOUR rights! NO al Trusted Computing! Say NO to Trusted Computing! www.no1984.org www.againsttcpa.com
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