🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 18 days agoAnon is an impostersh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square79linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1imageAnon is an impostersh.itjust.works🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 18 days agomessage-square79linkfedilink
minus-squareHoimo@ani.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·18 days agoYeah, but why is CIDR notation like that? You put a bigger number at the end and your subnet becomes smaller? Why would you want that?
minus-squareramble81@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-218 days agoWhen you translate it out it bits it’s the number of bits that are active in the net mask 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 is a /0 0000 0000 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 is a /24 0000 0011 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 is a /26 And since it’s used for matching, it follows how many there are.
Yeah, but why is CIDR notation like that? You put a bigger number at the end and your subnet becomes smaller? Why would you want that?
When you translate it out it bits it’s the number of bits that are active in the net mask
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 is a /0
0000 0000 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 is a /24
0000 0011 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 is a /26
And since it’s used for matching, it follows how many there are.