help converting HEX netmask...

[c.hutchinson0 at yahoo.com]

Greetings, and thanks for the response...
On Tue, 1 May 2012 16:49:51 -0700
Peter Lai <cowbert at gmail.com> wrote:

> ipv4 numbers are 32bits arranged by bytes (octets).
> 
> 0xff = 255
> 0xe0 = 112
> 
> so it looks like your mask is 255.255.112.0

Well, I did some further research, and ended up with this:
255.255.224.0

Thanks again. :-)
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> On May 1, 2012 3:50 PM, <c.hutchinson0 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > Greetings,
> >  This may seem dim to some of you, but I have a question regarding
> > (determining) the netmask, from the output of ifconfig(8).
> > Mine is returned as:
> > 0xffffe000
> >
> > Any help greatly appreciated.
> > Apologies should this be stupid.
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