Netmasks

Netmasks definition - hacker
A bit field used in version 4 of the Internet Protocol to calculate the network part from a given IP Address by using a binary AND operation.

See Also: Bit and Bit Challenges; Internet Protocol (IP); IP Address.

Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Bernadette Schell and Clemens Martin.
Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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