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IP Addressing

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adiMasher

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Aug 31, 2001
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Maybe I missed this part when I was reading through the networking books but I was curious to see why when in every example code I see about changing a dotted IP address to Long it flips the quadrants around

like the address 127.227.204.1

127 = 01111111
227 = 11100011
204 = 11001100
1 = 00000001

now logicially in my head I would go from left to right

01111111 / 11100011 / 11001100 / 00000001

And when subnetting that's exactly what I do.

but when converting to long I do this.

00000001 11001100 11100011 01111111

I'm just confused why the byte arrangement is different.

Thanks for any answers,
Martin
 
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