most notably in the default configuration of subnet masks.

Background

In the original address definition, the most significant eight bits of the 32-bit IPv4 address were the network number field, which specified the particular network a host was attached to. The remaining 24 bits specified the local address, also called rest field (the rest of the address), which uniquely identified a host connected to that network. This format was sufficient at a time when only

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