Hi All,

I was setting up NFS on my Server/Client machines, and through my searches on LinuxQuestions.org, I found thread that helped me, and my NFS Server/Client are working great. However, in that thread it said: "Try exporting as 192.168.0.0/24".

what does the "/24" after that IP number means? What effect does it have?

Thanks

This is the so-called prefix. It tells you how many bits in the IP address are used for the network number. Since an IPv4 address is 32 bits long, the remaining 8 bits are use as the device address.

You could also say that your netmask is 255.255.255.0. Again, the three 255 bytes are 24 bits set to 1.

The effect is that your network can contain addresses from 196.168.0.1 to 196.168.0.254 (Device addresses 0 and 255 are reserved).

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subnetwork.

This is fundamental networking knowledge. I suggest you study a book or a web page that introduces computer networking, e.g. https://www.dummies.com/computers/computer-networking/ (not implying you are a dummy ).

...hence the /24 means the first 24 bits of the IPv4 address are not resolved / evaluated, right?

Rather the opposite is true here:
The first 24 bits of the IPv4 address decide if access is granted.

That's right, I should have written "... the /24 means the first 24 bits of the IPv4 address are not used for device addresses". Thanks for the clarification .