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[John Summerfield]

On Wednesday 08 December 2004 14:35, Jonathan Berry wrote:
> I'm not familiar with this notation for IP ranges.  What exactly does
> the "/24" or "/8" mean?  It's obviously some kind of mask.  How does
> it correlate to a net mask?

/n means n bits of the IP address represent the network address. So /24 is 
equivalent to 255.255.255.0, /8 to 255.0.0.0 etc.

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