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take into account a host value of zero and a host value of all 1s that has

special subnet meanings.

Note also in Table3.5 that any address with all 0s in the network

portion is used to represent “this” network. Also note that an old form

of broadcasting known as the all 0s takes the form of 0.0.0.0. You

should not use this old broadcasting address because it is now used in

a routing table to indicate a default route.

Finally, note that an address prefix of 127 represents an inter-

nal host loopback address and cannot be assigned to any host as a

unique address. is address can be used to determine if a host’s

TCP/IP protocol stack is operational. For example, in a Windows 7,

Windows NT, or/Windows 2000 environment you ...