On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Jeffrey E. Harris wrote:
> Responding to one point <rest of material deleted>....
> On 25 Mar 2001, Ash Wyllie wrote:
> >
> > >BP > i advise you to not use 192.168.0.x for windows, use 192.168.1.x
> > >BP > and it will work :)
>
> Huh? I use 192.168.0.x for my Windows machines, and it works just fine
> for communications between them... in fact, MS sets the address of the
> Gateway machine for 192.168.0.1 when Internet Connection Sharing is
> enabled or installed, which means the other machines on the network have
> to be 192.168.0.x unless one wants to play games with subnet masks, which
> I would not necessarily recommend.
This comes from something Holger reported a while back, that *some*
versions of Windoze have problems with 192.168.0.x addresses. This isn't
necessarily inconsistent with *requiring* those addresses in later
versions. :-)
Fred Wright
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