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Re: i.p. addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Shepard)
Sun Nov 15 00:48:01 1998
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 09:46:17 -0800 (PST)
From: Rich Shepard <rshepard@appl-ecosys.com>
Reply-To: Rich Shepard <rshepard@appl-ecosys.com>
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On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, Don Hummrich wrote:
> i have a couple of machines that i'd like to network together ( using
> ethernet ).
> my question is, can i just 'make up' a couple of i.p. addresses to use
> or will this just mess things up?
> the only 'network' that i connect to is my isp via ppp dialup.
> any thoughts ??
Don,
There are several blocks of IP addresses available for internal networks.
I -- and several of the local folks here -- use 10.0.0.1 through 10.0.0.n
where n is the number of machines you have networked (in my case, 4,
including the subnotebook). The netmask is 255.0.0.0.
HTH,
Rich
Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.
2404 SW 22nd Street
Troutdale, OR 97060-1247 U.S.A.
+ 1 503-667-4517 (voice) | + 1 503-667-8863 (fax)
rshepard@appl-ecosys.com
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