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A maximum of 126/8 networks can ber defined. The calculation requires that the
2 is substracted because the /8 network 0.0.0.0 is reserved for use as the default route and the /8
network 127.0.0.0 has been reserved for the "lookback"
function. Each /8 supports a maximum of 16,777,214 hosts per network
that 2 is substracted because the all-0s and all
-1s host numbers may not be assigned to individual.
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