----- Original Message -----
From: Connie Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 1999 2:07 PM
Subject: Re: 2 computer lan question
> You should avoid 0's.
>
> For a private non-broadcast lan use 192.168.1.??? with a
mask of
> 255.255.255.0
>
> Connie
>
Why? What's the theory for using 1.x instead of 0.x? My ISDN
Router (Netgear) came with 192.168.0.1 as it's default
address. My understanding of the way these "private" IP
addresses work is that 0.1 is perfectly acceptable. However,
192.168.1.x would also work just as well. I work tech
support here at a local ISP and whenever someone comes in to
set up an ISDN router, we almost always set 'em up with the
default 192.168.0.1 as the Router address and make it the
default gateway in whatever O/S is being used (for the vast
majority of our clients, it's Windows 95 or 98 <G>) We've
never had a single problem setting them up to 192.168.0.1.
*shrug*
Not trying to be argumentative or anything, just wondering
what you know that I don't <G>
John
