Firewall Questions on Ubuntu

Shango Oluwa shango at mewe.org.uk
Sat Dec 25 13:47:58 UTC 2004


On Sat, 2004-12-25 at 13:23 +0100, Martin Schmitz wrote:

> Neither of these are netmasks. ;-) There are two ways of describing a
> netmask, one is two write down a pair of addresses, IP-address and
> netmask, ie. 192.168.0.12 and netmask 255.255.255.0. You can also write
> this as a shortcut, it's 192.168.0.12/24. See
> http://www.cs.byuh.edu/research/colton/book/node47.html
> 

Ye, I saw ...25... and my mind automatically completed it: 255 (!)

Thanks, Martin.

Shango





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