On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 10:54:54 -0500 Kurt Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, list,
>
> I've never been terribly clear on this, so I'll ask here. Given
> a network address of, say, 192.168.0.0 and a netmask of /8, thus
> 192.168.0.0/8, this means that 8 bits of the network address will
> be used for the host address, which means that any address in the
> range 192.168.0.1 - 192.168.0.255 will match. Am I correct?
Reading your question literally (the last part of it anyway), yes,
0.1-0.255 will match your /8. But I know that's not what you meant.
Getting this backwards on a firewall could be disastrous.
Ciao,
David A. Bandel
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