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Subject: help converting HEX netmask...
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Greetings,
 This may seem dim to some of you, but I have a question regarding
(determining) the netmask, from the output of ifconfig(8).
Mine is returned as:
0xffffe000

Any help greatly appreciated.
Apologies should this be stupid.