[Info-vax] setting up an alpha in a home network using a linksys router

Michael Unger spam.to.unger at spamgourmet.com
Sat Aug 1 13:11:39 EDT 2009


On 2009-07-31 15:43, "Richard B. Gilbert" wrote:

> [...]
> 
> Your own network is normally configured to use the RFC-1918 private 
> address spaces.  Unless you need more than 254 addresses, you would 
> normally use 192.168.1.X where X is in the range 1-254.  I believe that 
> 0 and 255 are reserved for something or other; I think one is a 
> broadcast address the other escapes me.  Sorry about that!

".0" is the "network address" while ".255" is the "broadcast address"
for a "/24" (fornerly called a "class C" address) network.

> [...]

Michael

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