Masks

• IP Address-Mask Pairs often Written with Prefix Notation

  • 128.171.17.13/16
  • 16 means that the mask has 16 initial 1s
  • Total number of bits is 32 in an IP address, so there must be 16 trailing 0s

11111111111111110000000000000000

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