• The bitmask that, when applied by a bitwise AND operation to any IP address in the network, yields the routing prefix. Subnet masks are expressed in dot-decimal notation like an IP address. For example, “255.255.255.0” is the subnet mask for the prefix “198.51.100.0/24”. ← Wikipedia

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