Kurt Roeckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's a.b.0.c. > > Note that the "c" can be bigger than 255, so 128.1.512 turns into > 128.1.2.0. This can make perfect sense when you still used > classes.
Perhaps it'll seem less strange if I restate the rule so there aren't four different cases: A dotted quad is 1-4 numbers separated by dots where each number is an 8 bit number except for the last which includes all the remaining bits in the 32 bit address. It might seem strange to people used to networks smaller than /24. But if you have a /16 with thousand hosts and don't need subnets it makes perfect sense to number them from 1-1000 rather than using base 256. I use it all the time for my net-10 addresses. They're subnetted into 10.1/16 10.2/16 etc. Sadly, I don't have thousands of hosts though. -- greg ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
