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Re: netmask question

From <tomas@tuxteam.de>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: netmask question
Date 2023-05-22 21:10 +0200
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On Mon, May 22, 2023 at 12:16:09PM -0400, gene heskett wrote:
> On 5/22/23 03:32, Tim Woodall wrote:
> > On Mon, 22 May 2023, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > 
> >   number; for (human) display it is subdivided into four 8 bit chunks
> > > (called "octets" for obvious reasons), and those octets only can
> > > go from 0 to 255 (since 2^8 == 255).
> > > 
> > Nit, but 2^8 is 256.
> > 
> > .
> The octets count from base 0 Tim.

That's right, but then they go 0 .. 2^8 - 1. 2^8 is still 256, Tim does
have a point there :-)

Cheers
-- 
t

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