On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 01:10:56PM -0700, Kendall Shaw wrote:
| Thanks everyone.
| 
| How about this then from page 4, about class A networks:
| 
| "Each Class A network address has an 8-bit network prefix, with the
| highest order bit set to 0 (zero) and a 7-bit network number, followed
| by a 24-bit host number...
| 
| A maximum of 126 (27 -2) /8 networks can be defined. The calculation
| subtracts two because the /8 network 0.0.0.0 is reserved for use as the
| default route and the /8 network 127.0.0.0"
| 
| 12^6? Is 27 - 2 supposed to be 128 - 2?

Yes. Again, missing the superscripting, 2^7 = 128.

Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd

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