Tablet Talk: Learn the Basics of CIDR and Netmasks in Ten Minutes

In this Tablet Talk, Will goes over CIDR notation, netmasks, and a little bit of binary. Listen in if you would like a better understanding of what something like 192.168.0.0/28 means when you see it within your VPCs, subnets, and route tables.

Learning Objectives

• Learn how to break up an IP address from decimal into binary
• Understand how the netmask affects the number of available IP addresses

Intended Audience

This lesson is intended for anyone looking to get an understanding of CIDR and Netmasks.

Prerequisites

An open mind!