Addressing

IP Address -- 192.168.1.24

4 Octets (each octet seperated by a dot)

Each octet is 8 bits

0 to (2^8 - 1) to 255

Subnet mask -- 255.255.255.0

192.168.1 = Network portion

.24 = Host Portion

.0 = Network Address

.255 = Broadcast address

.1 - .254 available for hosts, so 245 host adresses available in this subnet