On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 11:50:08AM -0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >I have a small home network with 5 or so machines. These all have IP
> >addresses in the range 192.168.13.xxx and I have christened them
> >xxxx.isbd.mynet.
>
> I'm not sure, but if you "made up" those IP numbers yourself, i.e.
> if you didn't get them assigned as "static IPs" on the Internet,
> they should probably be 192.168.0.xxx instead. (This is the Class
Anything in the range 192.168.0.0 to 192.168.255.255 is in the
'private' range assigned by the RFC.
> C address range reserved for non-Internet-connected boxes. They're
> what I use. Of course, when I dial into my ISP via PPP, I get
> assigned a completely different dynamic IP number...someday I might
> get a static IP, but it'd be, probably at first, just for the dial-in
> machine, and IP forwarding and such would manage the movement
> of packets accordingly.)
>
Demon Internet is exceptional in that it offers all its dial-up users
a static IP address. I think it's basically because it was one of the
earliest ISPs and thus has the addresses available because it grabbed
them early before they were hard to come by.
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