Yes, addresses starting with 0 are not valid addresses. If you're going
to stay under 255 addresses, you might want to consider one of the
non-routable IP blocks as defined in RFC1918. Class C addreses (mask
255.255.255.0) are 192.168.0.0-255 (do not use .0 or .255, start with .1)
or even a class A block. According to the RFC you can use 192.168.x.y
where x and y can be a number from 0 to 255, in theory.
Make sure when you use your IP addresses, remember the lowest and highest
address of the subnet you use are for network and broadcast uses.
Johan Stewart wrote:
> I have a network at work that has 16 machines on it, the ip address's
> are 0.1.0.0 for the server and 0.0.0.1 <-> 0.0.0.16 for the clients, i
> have acces to the server and was able to get the netmask (255.0.0.0)
> from ifconfig. ( the server is running SCO Unix), but the attempt to
> connect my laptop running linux to the network fails, the laptop seems
> to reject the ip address because it starts with zero.
>
> Anybody have any ideas? I was thinking of bringing up an alias
> interface on the SCO machine with a different ip address if that is
> possible.
>
> Johan Stewart
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> www.tridentconsulting.com
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