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Glossary: TCP/IP in Depth, Part 1

/31

Also written: /31 link, RFC 3021

A prefix that leaves a subnet of just two addresses. A subnet normally loses two addresses to the network and broadcast addresses, but on a link with exactly two routers at its ends, both addresses of a /31 can be used.

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