On Wednesday 08 December 2004 14:35, Jonathan Berry wrote: > I'm not familiar with this notation for IP ranges. What exactly does > the "/24" or "/8" mean? It's obviously some kind of mask. How does > it correlate to a net mask? /n means n bits of the IP address represent the network address. So /24 is equivalent to 255.255.255.0, /8 to 255.0.0.0 etc. -- Cheers John Summerfield tourist pics: http://environmental.disaster.cds.merseine.nu/
