I posted earlier about wanting to have only 4 usable hosts on my network.
So I did the math and figured out I needed 255.255.255.250... to my surprise it didn't work...
So I've been told the next best one is 255.255.255.248 - 8 hosts - 6 usable
So I do know how netmasks work sort of...
11111111.11111111.11111111.11111000
------------------------------------------^ Hosts begin here.
So what I tried was a .250 netmask octet for my host portion.
Which would be 11111010 But as somebody pointed out...
------------------------^Hosts still begin here
On my network I wanted only 4 usable IP's, but I have to settle on 6.
Has anybody ever thought of a "Netmask2" or anything like that where admins and the like can confine their hosts to an EXACT number with the netmask...
Wouldn't it be more secure to confine the exact hosts to the exact amount of nodes? This leaves no room for anybody to gain entry and acquire/set a functional IP address.
Why isn't this possible to do? Isn't this technology like 30-40 years old? Hasn't anybody thought of ways to improve it?
I'm not a network engineer by any means, so I'm basically just wondering.
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