On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Rick Stevens <ri...@nerd.com> wrote: > Also note that the netmask must be consecutive 1 bits...the first 0 bit > marks the end of the netmask.
This is probably only of historical interest, but I seem to remember that originally the netmask could in theory have holes in it, i.e. it didn't have to be consecutive 1's from the left. No doubt the introduction of CIDR changed all that. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
