On Mon, May 22, 2023 at 3:32 AM Tim Woodall <debianu...@woodall.me.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 22 May 2023, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > number; for (human) display it is subdivided into four 8 bit chunks > > (called "octets" for obvious reasons), and those octets only can > > go from 0 to 255 (since 2^8 == 255). > > > Nit, but 2^8 is 256. > In binary the first address is 0 which is all bits off. In a /24 network the .0 is reserved for network addresses and 255 is reserved for broadcast which means there are 254 usable host addresses! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating system ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://www.debian.org/ ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀
