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Date:      Tue, 1 May 2012 19:44:31 -0700
From:      c.hutchinson0@yahoo.com
To:        freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: help converting HEX netmask...
Message-ID:  <20120501194431.7d9c91c7@virus.local>
In-Reply-To: <201205020701.05991.erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com>
References:  <20120501154844.45cc2f37@virus.local> <201205020701.05991.erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com>

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Greetings...
On Wed, 2 May 2012 07:01:05 +0700
Erich Dollansky <erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Wednesday 02 May 2012 05:48:44 c.hutchinson0@yahoo.com wrote:
> > 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
> 
> you take a calculator which is able to convert hex to dec but you
> have to break the number up into fields like:
> 
> ff
> ff
> e0
> 00
Right you are! Which brings us:
255.255.224.0

Thanks for the response -- and answer. :-)

> 
> Erich
> > 
> > Any help greatly appreciated.
> > Apologies should this be stupid.
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