Determining a network's IP address

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NIM determines a network's IP address by performing a bitwise "AND" on the binary representations of the network's subnet mask and the address of any machine's IP address on the same network.

For example:

    subnet mask = 255.255.254.0
 client address = 129.35.58.207

In binary:

    subnet mask = 11111111.11111111.11111110.00000000
 client address = 10000001.00100011.00111010.11001111
network address = 10000001.00100011.00111010.00000000

In decimal:

network address = 129.35.58.0