Ip Subnet Notation
On a Lab to Regarding Network Topology Using Port Scanners, I Am Instructed "To Develop a Network Inventory and Topology for the 123.218.44.0/24 Subnet." What...
On a lab to regarding network topology using port scanners, I am instructed "to develop a network inventory and topology for the 123.218.44.0/24 subnet."
What does the notation 0/24 mean there? I had assumed it meant to consider the network range 123.218.44.0 to 123.218.44.24. When I use nmap against a range, using parameters in this format:
nmap -sS -O 123.218.44.0/24
nmap reports that it scanned 256 hosts, presumably 123.218.44.0 to 123.218.44.255. There is only one host between 0 and 24, but there are 4 hosts between 101 and 255. I assume that I am meant to find all 5 of those hosts, but I don't understand the notation so I'm not sure. Can anyone clarify for me?
4 Answers
That's Classless Inter-Doman Routing notation. The /24 means that the routing prefix of the subnet is 24 bits long, which means there's ony 8 bits left for the subnet itself, i.e. 123.218.44.0 to 123.218.44.255
/24 means the mask is 255.255.255.0
And the other posters are correct about /24 being CIDR.
The "0/24" is CIDR notation. It's a standard way to represent the subnet mask.
/24 represents 255.255.255.0 which is the default subnet mask of Class C ip address which has a number of 16777216 subnets and 254 hosts
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