ARTIBALD.INFOSubnets and subnet masks
One of the most complex tasks tcp/ip has to perform is to determine whether or not a given ip address exists on the same subnet. the task isn’t really that complicated once you understand how tcp/ip uses its ip address and subnet mask.
An IP address looks something like this: 192.168.10.52. IP addresses always contain four numbers from 0–255, separated by periods. A portion of the IP address is called the network ID and acts as a unique identifier for a particular subnet. The rest of the IP address is called the host ID and identifies a particular …
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