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Quick networking question

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JCE86

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I was reading http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=1427&page=3 and it says:

Sets with the value of 0 indicate the host portion of the IP address, and sets with the value of 255 indicate the network portion. For example, with an IP address of 169.254.73.160 and a subnet mask of 255.255.0.0, the network portion of the address would be 169.254, and the host portion would be 73.160. This means the computer assigned this address is host 25 within network 192.168.0.

Where does that 25 come from?!
 
I read the article and can only conclude that this statement is completely out of context.
He may be referring to the address on his own computer but that should have been made clear. I would have asked, "where did the 192.168.0 come from?". The fact that it starts with a 192.168.0 suggests a different type of network which has a gateway, in which case the 25 would have been assigned automatically by the DHCP server 192.168 0.1, or was assigned as a static IP address by a network admin.
Nowhere in the article was the IP address seen whole. ie.- 192.168.0.25 which would be the address of a client computer on a network with a shared internet connection.
Does that answer your question?
 
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