> Since this is an internal only network the ip address should not
matter
> at all (my thought anyway)

Oh, it matters a lot. That's why there are reserved address ranges of
differing sizes for this kind of stuff. You *will* have problems if you
do this. 

Classic example: Sun used to publish examples that used actual addresses
from their network in their manuals. A lot of people set up their
networks using the example addresses -- and then connected to the
internet, where a lot of people suddenly had to do mass renumbering
because their machines were attempting to boot from machines at
Sun...8-)

> but I guess if were to reserve a
> 10.*.*.* (* something) for z/linux only then that would be ok.

Use a /24 from 192.168 or 172.28 instead. Wastes less space, and a lot
of large corps use net 10 for internal space. 

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