What is something that was explained to you wrong such that you could never understand it, and you received a clarifying explanation that finally made sense? (lemmy.world)

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

A subnet is defined by its netmask. Classes are useless nowadays IMHO.

At least for me they created more confusion than anything else. Why are there classes if the netmask defines the subnet size? Because there was a time before netmasks, just ignore them

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