private IP adresses

[David Krings]

Hi !

        Reading several howtos/literature for networking i saw that there seem to
be different IP adreesses for private use.

        There are the 127.x.x.x, the 172.x.x.x and 198.x.x.x coming up. Are this
three all allowed for private use ? Are there more than these available ?

        My W9x network is setup to 198.0.0.x adresses and I would like to keep
that also for Linux (client or server). Does this make any difference ? May
this lead to problems later when i use IP-masquerading ?

                Thanx for any hint/tip.

                        Greez

                                Dave