[CST-2] Digi Comms

[Tom Puverle]

> Hmm.. to be pedantic the final bits do actually always specify a host
> (or a network/broadcast address if they are all 0/1's), otherwise the
> IP address wouldn't be unique to that particular host. What you mean
> is that you can still have further subnetting and routing based on
> this inside that host part, so you can have sub-network blocks  and
> sub-host parts (I guess that's what you'd call them), but you do
> still essentially need all the way down to the last bit to directly
> identify that host.

Yes, you are right and I don't think I claimed otherwise. Assuming a 
class C network (it can't be an A or B if you are still routing when you 
know the first 18 bits) the example address 128.232.2/18 isn't still 
resolved (since you need to know the first 24 bits to find the correct
class C net) which is why I said that it was more likely to be a network
cluster.