On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 04:54:17AM -0600, Shawn wrote:
> Too many 1's and 0's...  Going cross eyed.   So basically, the last octet of
> the netmask is what determines the /# after the ip address.

For small networks, yes.  But it's really all octets.  A class A network, for
instance, would have a netmask of 255.0.0.0 (8 bits set) and, therefore, be a
/8 in CIDR notation.

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