Guest runner7@fastmail.fm Posted September 14, 2007 Posted September 14, 2007 As a relative newcomer to networking, I am trying to straighten out my understanding of the use of the network address (the one with all 0's in the host section of the address). Is this address actually used to contact a particular host or what, like putting it on the gateway router somewhere? How is it used to find or contact the network? Thanks for any replies.
Guest wilscott1st@yahoo.com Posted September 14, 2007 Posted September 14, 2007 Re: trying to figure out network address usage On Sep 13, 9:10 pm, runn...@fastmail.fm wrote: > As a relative newcomer to networking, I am trying to straighten out my > understanding of the use of the network address (the one with all 0's > in the host section of the address). Is this address actually used to > contact a particular host or what, like putting it on the gateway > router somewhere? How is it used to find or contact the network? > Thanks for any replies. My understanding (also learning) Do you mean the subnet mask? 11111111.11111111.11111111.00000000 The zero's indicate the host address and the 1's indicate the network address. 192.168.1.0 w/ mask 255.255.255.0 is a network address, not the address of a host a host would normally be assigned an address between .1 and .254 If I got it wrong please chime in! I would hate to be saying (and misunderstanding) something wrong..
Guest Anthony Posted September 14, 2007 Posted September 14, 2007 Re: trying to figure out network address usage You really just need to google for something like "subnet mask". There's a bit of a learning curve, but its not a very difficult idea, for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subnetwork Hope that helps, Anthony http://www.airdesk.co.uk <wilscott1st@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:1189789487.548884.292100@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com... > On Sep 13, 9:10 pm, runn...@fastmail.fm wrote: >> As a relative newcomer to networking, I am trying to straighten out my >> understanding of the use of the network address (the one with all 0's >> in the host section of the address). Is this address actually used to >> contact a particular host or what, like putting it on the gateway >> router somewhere? How is it used to find or contact the network? >> Thanks for any replies. > > My understanding (also learning) > Do you mean the subnet mask? > 11111111.11111111.11111111.00000000 > > The zero's indicate the host address and the 1's indicate the network > address. > > 192.168.1.0 w/ mask 255.255.255.0 > is a network address, not the address of a host > a host would normally be assigned an address between .1 and .254 > > If I got it wrong please chime in! I would hate to be saying (and > misunderstanding) something wrong.. >
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