On 10 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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
> 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.)
Actually, his "made up" IP addresses are perfectly correct as they are.
The address ranges reserved for private network addressing are listed in
RFC 1918 as:
A 10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255
B 172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255
B 192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255
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