09-24-2003, 09:57 PM
the /24 simply means 24 bits from the left... as far as I was aware... thus 24 = 11111111 11111111 11111111 00000000 or 255.255.255.0 since 11111111 is really 128 + 64 + 32 + 16 + 8 + 4 + 2 + 1... thus /23 would be 255.255.254.0 :-D