At 5:32 PM +0000 9/10/03, Priscilla Oppenheimer wrote: >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. > >And binary is going to be pretty hard to deal with when we get to 128-bit >IPv6 addresses!?
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