The /24 means the bits used in the subnet mask. Translating to english: a class C address is something like 200.234.123.9 255.255.255.0. Let's convert the subnet from decimal to binary: 255.255.255.0 ===> 11111111.11111111.11111111.00000000 How many 1's ??? 24... You got it?? By the way... to inform to a host to look to all addresses at a specific class the proper maner is to indicate it as you looked in the example, with a "0", that means "all range of addresses in that field". orlando Sevatio wrote: > I've got a syntax question. I'm trying to tell one of my xinetd Swat > file to allow access from all 192.168.0.* IP addresses but it doesn't > seem to understand the '*'. So I looked at an example in > Mandrakeuser.org and they used 192.168.0.0/24. What does the slash 24 > signify in 192.168.0.0/24? > > TIA, > Sevatio
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