XOR for Computing ACL Masks
I think the XOR works such that u need to have equal number of 0 and 1 for the result to be equal to 1. Anything other than equal number of 0 and 1 results in a value equal to 0.
Hope that was informative brother.
On 7/28/06, Brian wrote: > > I have been looking at the following example on how to calculate an > appropriate mask. > http://www.internetworkexpert.com/resources/01700370.htm. While I > understand the process that was use (and it works well) I cannot figure > out how the mask was calculated using XOR in example 2. If I understand > XOR correctly anytime there are an even number of 1’s in a computation > the result of XOR will be 0. When there are an odd number of 1’s the > result will be 1. This does not seem to hold true in the example. > > Can someone please help me understand how XOR was applied to come up > with the mask in example 2. Specifically the second octet is where the > confusion comes in. The only conclusions I can draw are that this is > not truly an XOR or I do not understand XOR. > > By the way I tried to XOR 0011 in the MS calculator and the result is 0. > > Thanks! > > _______________________________________________________________________ > Subscription information may be found at: > http://www.groupstudy.com/list/CCIELab.html
























