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GNU/Linux Desktop Survival Guide
 by Graham Williams  | 
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IP Addresses CIDR Notation | 
The classless inter-domain routing notation (CIDR) allows
IP address ranges to be specified. For example, the address
123.145.167.189/32 refers to that exact IP address whereas
123.145.167.189/31 refers to the IP addresses
123.145.167.189 and 123.145.167.190. The number of
addresses is calculated as  where 
 in the above two
examples is 32 and 31 respectively. That is, 1 (
) and 2 (
).