Brian Parish wrote:
On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 21:53, Adolfo Bello wrote:Hi Adolfo,
Hi there:
I was following this thread very closely.
Could you, please, post the IP you got from DHCP and the static IP that you have setup to solve your problem?
Regards,
Adolfo
Cliff will probably respond, but in case he doesn't...you can use a number of address ranges, but the most frequently used is probably 192.168.0.x where x is between 1 and 254 with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0
It depends a bit on what else is in your network. For example, one of
the "standard" addresses used by routers is 10.0.0.138 (same subnet). If you have one of these it's just as easy to use the 10.0.0.x range so
you don't have to change the router's address.
Doesn't really matter as long as the range used is consistent and the subnets match.
The advantage of using these particular numbers is that they are in defined ranges that do not get routed across the internet, so they'll stay private to your LAN no matter how you manage to screw up your router/firewall/whatever.
HTH Brian
Brian's got the goods here really. My machines have IPs set in the 169.254.xxx.xxx
range, just because when it worked with dhcp, that had been the address assigned.
When dchp failed it kept setting 127.255.255.255, which I think is in the loopback range.
The subnet I now use is 255.255.0.0 which is somewhat arbitrary also, as I understand.
Good luck
Cliff
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