From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 7 17:28:46 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B327116A420 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 17:28:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from petre@kgb.ro) Received: from kgb.rdsbv.ro (kgb.rdsbv.ro [82.78.148.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17C0343D68 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 17:28:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from petre@kgb.ro) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kgb.rdsbv.ro (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CFA911625 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 19:28:52 +0200 (EET) Received: from kgb.rdsbv.ro ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (kgb.rdsbv.ro [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 93033-04 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 19:28:50 +0200 (EET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kgb.rdsbv.ro (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFB0F115C6 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 19:28:50 +0200 (EET) Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 19:28:50 +0200 From: Petre Bandac To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060307192850.15258e4d@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1cac28080603070729h255c7ee8gfaefd0743814454@mail.gmail.com> References: <1cac28080603070729h255c7ee8gfaefd0743814454@mail.gmail.com> Organization: my own organization X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.0.0 (GTK+ 2.8.11; i386-portbld-freebsd5.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at lubyanka.kgb.ro Subject: Re: 192.168.0.1/24 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 17:28:46 -0000 On Tue, 7 Mar 2006 10:29:18 -0500 Anno Domini, the honourable Huy Ton That wrote using one of his keyboards: > Reading the handbook and I've seen /24 appended to an IP address > often. I'm curious what this exactly means - I don't have strong > networking skills; does this define what ip it goes up to? > > 192.168.0.1 through to 192.168.0.24? you may want to install /usr/ports/net-mgmt/cidr 192.168.0.0/24 is the whole class C, i.e. from 1 to 254 (0 being the network address and 255 being the broadcast address) http://www.kgb.ro/netmasks > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Petre Bandac Network Scientist - petre@kgb.ro