192.168.0.1/24

[Petre Bandac]

On Tue, 7 Mar 2006 10:29:18 -0500 Anno Domini, the honourable Huy Ton
That wrote using one of his keyboards:

> Reading the handbook and I've seen /24 appended to an IP address
> often.  I'm curious what this exactly means - I don't have strong
> networking skills; does this define what ip it goes up to?
> 
> 192.168.0.1 through to 192.168.0.24?

you may want to install /usr/ports/net-mgmt/cidr

192.168.0.0/24 is the whole class C, i.e. from 1 to 254 (0 being the
network address and 255 being the broadcast address)

http://www.kgb.ro/netmasks

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Petre Bandac

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