HOWTO: Understand Binary and Subnetting

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HOWTO: Understand Binary and Subnetting

Posted by Jason on Sunday May 26, @12:44PM
from the 01100111 dept.

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If you have ever wondered why a TCP/IP address such as the class C address 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 can also be written as 192.168.1.0/24, then read on and I will explain it to you!

In this post I will try to dispel the mystery of binary (otherwise known as base 2) and explain why it is important in subnetting. Learning it is not very complicated, and it's very good information to know.

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