Re: [Sheflug] Of networking, subnets and routing

["Chris J/#6" <nospam [at] nccnet.co.uk>]

> 
> Um, firstly, 'linuxchix' ?! Have I missed some urban/hacker takeover of the
> word 'chick' (other than poultry), or have you been hiding something Chris
> ?! ;))
> 

Number 2: "That would be telling..."

There's actually quite a few bloke type people on the list - I don't know any 
female 'Malcolm's for instance :)

Regarding the choice of netmask ... I don't know why, but its a good 
illustrative example to show two things: firstly subnets aren't all 8/16/24 
bit bitmasks...especially in the wonderful world of CIDR; secondly ... given 
a subnet value, how to seperate the host part from the network part. The fact 
it was an awkward subnet makes it all the more worthwhile /if/ you can 
understand the concept of having a variable 1 < x < 254 bit netmask. :)

Chris...

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