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Would like know about calculation of subnet masking

Discussion in 'Networking (Hardware & Software)' started by tshiva1985, 2008/09/04.

  1. 2008/09/04
    tshiva1985

    tshiva1985 Inactive Thread Starter

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    Hi....

    I am new person to this community and fresher in IT support team. Now I would like to know about the subnet masking, number of networks.... calculation and IP address. I hope, I will get the answer...
     
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    Steve R Jones

    Steve R Jones SuperGeek Staff

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    Welcome to the site. I moved your thread from the Introduce yourself forum to the Networking forum...
     
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    AKAJohnDoe

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    For IPV4 it is based on the 4 octets of the IP address and the mask determines the class of the network and thereby the ratio between the number of servers and clients if you will. The Wiki might help explain it better. It is here.

    IPV6 is different, but not widely deployed yet.
     
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