Check out the link below, it has three documents. The first one will answer your
questions.

Understanding IP Addressing: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know - By Chuck
Semeria

Cheers,

Andrew

James Pluck wrote:

> Thank you for all your help people. As an adjunct to this, does anyone have
> a site or some information that explains how the bitmapping (presumed) of
> the subnet mask works? I have seen a couple of "Cheat sheets" but nothing
> that explains the inner-workings as it were.
>
> PapaBear
> --
> Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like
> an hour. Sit next to a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems
> like a minute. That's relativity.
> --Albert Einstein

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