I stand corrected as per the info pasted below:
Address Allocation for Private Internets
RFC 1918 requests that organizations make use of the private Internet
address space for hosts that require IP connectivity within their enterprise
network, but do not require external connections to the global Internet. For
this purpose, the IANA has reserved the following three address blocks for
private internets:
10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255 (10/8 prefix) 172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255
(172.16/12 prefix) 192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255 (192.168/16 prefix)
Any organization that elects to use addresses from these reserved blocks can
do so without contacting the IANA or an Internet registry. Since these
addresses are never injected into the global Internet routing system, the
address space can simultaneously be used by many different organizations.
----- Original Message -----
From: John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Connie Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 1999 1:12 PM
Subject: Re: 2 computer lan question
>
> ----- 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
