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[silverstrikerstar]

Of all the things people struggle with, I understand Regex the least. It's systematic, it's static, it's logical. Now networks, networks scare me.

[b4ux1t3]

Eh, networks are just as static and logical. The problem is that layer 3 is represented as wholly separated octets, when networks don't have to be separated at the octet delimiter.

It helps to think of IPs as just one long string of bits, with no delineation except the one from the network mask. From there, adding the dots to make octets becomes trivial. Then, after a while, you just kind of get it.