Not quite. 127.x.x.x is loopback, not a private net. The private addresses are:
10.x.x.x (Class A, old style)
172.x.x.x (Class B, old style)
192.168.x.x (Class C, old style)
You can use 192.168.x.x (but NOT 192.x.x.x) just fine with Linux - we use it
here with a Linux host doing IP Masq.
At 05:43 PM 8/14/99 +0200, David Krings wrote:
>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
>
>
>
>
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