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"HostMin" = Prefix.

"HostMax" = Prefix followed by all f's.

"Hosts" = some ungodly large number (i.e. "small" for this is 2^64) you typically don't care about anymore.

If someone did something atypical like use a /123 (mask >64, mask not a multiple of 4) and you do actually want to see host max and host count as a result you can pass "--all-info". Otherwise a combination of the ridiculous size and hex encoding makes everything but "what is the prefix and netmask" irrelevant.

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