At 12:36 PM 5/21/2008 -0700, Kendall Shaw wrote:

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>For example, on page 3:
>
>"IPv4 defines a 32-bit address which means that there are
>only 232 (4,294,967,296) IPv4 addresses available."
>
>232 what?

It should read:

         2^32    (to the 32rd power)

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>On page 11:
>
>"The first step in the planning process is to take the maximum number of
>subnets required and round up to the nearest power of two. For example,
>if an organization needs nine subnets, 23 (or 8) will not provide
>enough subnet addressing space, so the network administrator will
>need to round up to 24 (or 16)."
>
>23 or 8 what? Bits?

23 = CIDR notation, .. i.e. 32 bits - 23 bits for the network = 8 for the 
subnet

         Written as: n.n.n.n/23

         Lee