31. First, the IPs that have histories ( I checked every IP on the subnet ). 32. Groups of machines with similar addresses are considered to be part of the same logical subnet . 33. With this subnet number, the correct, routable, IP address could be handed out. 34. All the checkuser result means is that they're not on the same IP subnet . 35. At a simplistic level a wildcard mask can be thought of as an inverted subnet mask. 36. So my questions : did subnet masks exist before CIDR or were they introduced for CIDR? 37. Do I need an IP inside address, and a subnet mask address, as the hub? 38. In computer networking, bit masks are used to derive the network address of a subnet mask. 39. Since Windows 7 the subnet 192.168.137 . x has been used by default. 40. I've also blocked the subnet for six hours to give the poor fellow a break.