Edgar Fuß <ef%math.uni-bonn.de@localhost> wrote:
>> It is extremely common to express a "subnet" as "addr/mask" and still
>> have non-zero host bits in the "addr" part.
> Is it? I never use that.
The advantage of doing so is that you no longer risk zeroing the wrong number
of bits when go from a /128 to the subnet that encloses it. v6: pretty
non-trivial to get right. v4 with non-multiples of 8: saves many mistakes.
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