Hope this helps:
255 decimal = 11111111 binary
So a subnet mask of:
255.255.255.0 = 11111111.11111111.11111111.00000000 = /24
255.255.0.0 = 11111111.11111111.00000000.00000000 = /16
255.255.255.192 = 11111111.11111111.11111111.11000000 = /26
255.255.255.255 = 11111111.11111111.11111111.11111111 = /32
Steve Lamb wrote:
>
> On Fri, 31 Jul 1998 10:54:08 +0100 (BST), Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
>
> >> >sender_net_accept_relay = 192.168.0.0/16
> >Instead of 192.168.0.0/0
>
> >The number after the slash tells you the number of significant bits of the
> >ip address. The parts between dots correspond to 8 bits each (numbers
> >between 0-255).
>
> Ah, got it. Never quite got the grasp of the netmask, now I do. OK, so
> if I want individual addresses it is, what, x.x.x.x/1?
>
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