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Jim Stapleton wrote:
> I am looking at something that has the following line as a demo:
> set iface route 192.168.0.0/24
> 
> what does the "/24" mean?
> 
> Thanks,
> -Jim Stapleton

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classless_Inter-Domain_Routing

HTH,
J