Daniel Barron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I finally managed to get my RH 5.2 server to masquerade. Simply by
> using the reserved 192.168.1.x addresses. It seems that one must use
> one of these ranges and can not 'invent' internal ip addresses. This
> may seem obvious but it worked with a non-standard range on the old
> slackware linux server.
Actually, you can just "make up" IP addresses if you want to, but the
size of the Internet guarantees that eventually, at some point, you will
run across another IP address in the same subnet range, and you won't be
able to talk to them, because your local routers will think it is a
local IP, not a remote IP, and won't route the packets correctly.
Using the designated "non-routable" IP ranges is just good sense. :)
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