Re: How do I determine subnet manually?

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tschmidt Premium,MVM join:2000-11-12 Milford, NH ·Hollis Hosting ·Verizon Online DSL ·Fairpoint Communic..	reply to verifone411 Re: How do I determine subnet manually? Each octet is 8-bits. A /24 address means 24-bits of address are reserved for network leaving 8 for host. This assumes you are talking about IPv4 with a 32-bit address range. An Octet is FFh or 256 (in decimal notion) However, since the lowest address is reserved as network address and highest for broadcast that leaves 254 available host addresses. Dotted Decimal was a convenient way to represent IP address when Class-full addressing was used since Class boundaries were also octet boundaries. With the advent of classless routing where split between network and host address can occur anywhere dotted decimal is a little like using Roman numerals to build a house. If you stick with binary or hex it is a lot less confusing. /tom
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IamGimli join:2004-02-28 Canada ·Primus Talkbroadband ·B2B2C High-Speed I..	said by tschmidt : If you stick with binary or hex it is a lot less confusing. I understand binary but how is hexadecimal any less confusing than decimal to represent network addresses? It may make them a bit shorter to write but I don't see any difference in the confusion aspect.
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tschmidt Premium,MVM join:2000-11-12 Milford, NH ·Hollis Hosting ·Verizon Online DSL ·Fairpoint Communic..	said by IamGimli : I understand binary but how is hexadecimal any less confusing than decimal to represent network addresses? It may make them a bit shorter to write but I don't see any difference in the confusion aspect. Dotted decimal represents a discontinuous counting method. If I add 1 to FFh I get 100h. If I add 1 to 0.255 (dotted decimal) I get 1.0. Life gets even more exciting if I start playing with masking lower order bits. If I want to mask the 2 low order bits I have 1111 1100 b (binary) FCh (hex) 252 Decimal Perhaps I'm unique (after all this is not my day job) but I find it impossible to do arithmetic in dotted decimal. /tom
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