192.168.1.0/24 has become the standard range for all sorts of firewall equipment.This is probably due to the fact that a majority of appliances are targeted for home users (such as all Linksys broadband routers). Since it is a home network, 254 address on there network is more then enough, so they decided to use a class C private address range, which we all know is any class C in 192.168.0.0/16. The significance of .1 is that the standard configurations for routers is to take the first available ip address of the subnet, and for 192.168.1.0/24, that would be 192.168.1.1. Other then that, there is no real reason why they chose to use that specific ip address.
_____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Anantha Subramanian Natarajan Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 7:37 AM To: faisal bhura Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [OSL | CCIE_Security] Any significance of the factory defaultip address of 192.168.1.1 Hi Faisal, Thank you very much ...I should have made the question clearer,I am trying to understand the significance of specifically using the address 192.168.1.1 instead of 192.168.1.2 ... Kindly let me know ..Thanks for the help Regards Anantha Subramanian Natarajan On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 8:23 AM, faisal bhura <[email protected]> wrote: hi , It is done so that we can go ahead and access the ASA through the ASDM, if you have a look at the startup guide it has instructions on how you can you can do the initial setup on the ASA without a console cable, the ASA has an inside IP address, and the inside interface would work as a dhcp server that would assign an IP address to any computer that connects to it.. once you access the asdm you can go ahead and use the wizard for vpn and other configurations. this ways you dont need a console to connect to the firewall and use command line at all... ... On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Anantha Subramanian Natarajan <[email protected]> wrote: Hi All, I was going through the ASA config guide and understood that when the ASA is in factory default configuration,the inside interface or the management ip address would be 192.168.1.1/24 depending on the platform.Is there any specific significance of that particular ip address is been used for that. Thanks for the help Regards Anantha Subramanian Natarajan _______________________________________________ For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, please visit www.ipexpert.com <http://www.ipexpert.com/> -- Regards
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