Flushing the IP routing table

[Systems Administrator]

Neil Cherry said:
> Chasecreek Systemhouse wrote:
>> On 1/12/06, John Austin <ja at jaa.org.uk> wrote:
>>> Odd looking netmask !!!! on first entry Should it be 255.255.255.0 ?
>> 
>> 255.255.252.0 is a sub-netting mask.
> 
> In the old days that would be a supernet because the 192.168.x.x is a
> class C (255.255.255.0). But that no longer holds true (and for the life
> of me I can't remember the dang name, something like classless).

It is called CIDR(Classless Inter-Domain Routing)

 >Today  that would signify that the network 192.168.0.0 covers the IP addresses
> 192.168.0.0 through 192.168.3.255. It is a little odd if this is a home
> network.
> 
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