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| | Networking: Understanding CIDR |
 | | If you were given the CIDR address 201.123.45.48/30, you'd have 201.123.45.48, 201.123.45.49, 201.123.45.50 and 201.123.45.51 only. |
 | | A couple of things slowed that down, one of which was NAT (Network Address Translation, which means that a small subset of "real" addresses are used to let machines with "inside" addresses talk to the outside world. |
 | | A related problem was that the bigger guys, who needed more than Class C addresses, were looking at a rapidly diminishing pool of available Class B's (/16 masks), and most of them probably didn't need a full B block anyway. |
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