[CST-2] Digi Comms

[Barnaby Gray]

On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 08:35:02PM +0100, Steve Bishop wrote:
> Right, I'm being quite dull but this has been bugging me for ages. How
> does the IP prefixing notation work? e.g.
> 
> 128.232.2/18
> 
> What is this meant to represent?

This means the first 18 bits of the ip address are the network portion
of the address and the remaining (32-18)=14 (on a good day) are the
host portion.

As a conventional bit mask the above would be masked as:
255.255.192.0

Barnaby