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From: rhott@volleydog.nswc.navy.mil (The VolleyDog)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: IP Addresses (Subnets)
Message-ID: <1990Jun13.145153.29190@relay.nswc.navy.mil>
Date: 13 Jun 90 14:51:53 GMT
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Organization: Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren VA
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I have a quick question, hopefully you will not flame to loudly with
regard to  viewing RFCs.  I looked through RFC 950 to try to determine
how to specify a host when using a subnet.  In my particular instance we
have a class B network.  I am interested in how one would specify
addresses when a subnet of 6 bits is used.

Suppose I want the 300th host on the 1 subnet of a class B network with
a netmask of 255.255.252!  Should I specify the IP address as
128.38.1.300 or 128.38.253.44

I guess my overall question is:  Should I specify the addressing using
the 3rd octet field in the dot notation as the subnet or as the 3rd
octet of the 32 bit field? 

Thanks,
  Bob Hott


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Fullname:         Robert W. (Bob) Hott
Mailing Address:  Naval Surface Warfare Center
                  Networks Branch (Code E41)
                  Dahlgren, Virginia  22448
DDN Mail:         rhott@relay.nswc.navy.mil
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