At 11:40 AM -0400 9/10/03, Reimer, Fred wrote: >I've always liked hex myself. A hex mask of FF.FF.F8.00 can be written as >FFFFF800 and still mean the same thing. You obviously can't do that with >255.255.128.0 (255.255.128.0 != 2,552,551,280). While binary works the same >way as hex in this manner, it is much to long for my tastes. Plus, hex is >used a lot in programming languages when using values in bitmasks, so I'm >more familiar with it. Also, there are only 5 hex numbers that you need to >memorize for masks, F 0 8 C and E. > >Fred Reimer - CCNA
I can live very easily with hex or binary. The problem is dotted decimal. Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=75194&t=75050 -------------------------------------------------- **Please support GroupStudy by purchasing from the GroupStudy Store: http://shop.groupstudy.com FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html
