Well, perhaps I misspoke then. I was always told not to use 0's. I am
going to go look it up.
Connie
----- Original Message -----
From: John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Connie Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 1999 1:12 PM
Subject: Re: 2 computer lan question
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Connie Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 1999 2:07 PM
> Subject: Re: 2 computer lan question
>
>
> > You should avoid 0's.
> >
> > For a private non-broadcast lan use 192.168.1.??? with a
> mask of
> > 255.255.255.0
> >
> > Connie
> >
> Why? What's the theory for using 1.x instead of 0.x? My ISDN
> Router (Netgear) came with 192.168.0.1 as it's default
> address. My understanding of the way these "private" IP
> addresses work is that 0.1 is perfectly acceptable. However,
> 192.168.1.x would also work just as well. I work tech
> support here at a local ISP and whenever someone comes in to
> set up an ISDN router, we almost always set 'em up with the
> default 192.168.0.1 as the Router address and make it the
> default gateway in whatever O/S is being used (for the vast
> majority of our clients, it's Windows 95 or 98 <G>) We've
> never had a single problem setting them up to 192.168.0.1.
> *shrug*
> Not trying to be argumentative or anything, just wondering
> what you know that I don't <G>
> John
