On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Jules wrote:
> How does one read addresses like 172.168.10/24 or 172.16.51.50/32 ?
> In particular, what does the slash signify what does it do in the above
> case(s).
It's a shorthand. It specifies the number of bits in the network mask.
For example:
- 172.168.10/24 is the same as 172.168.10.0/255.255.255.0 (i.e. a
classical Class C).
- 192.168.0/23 is 192.168.0.0/255.255.254.0
- 10.0.0.0/8 is 10.0.0.0/255.0.0.0
- 192.168.1.1/32 is a single address.
etc. ...
Note also that you can't specify all possible netmasks using this
shorthand notation - discontiguous ones are impossible.
This stuff make much more sense in binary form... :)
Hope this helps.
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