[X-Newbies] IP Addresses

[Robert Ameeti]

>On 12/11/04 Vincent Cayenne wrote:
>>Private addresses (as defined in RFC 1918
>><http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1918.html>)
>>  10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255
>>  172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255
>>  192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255
>
>Thanks for this Vincent.  My interpretation of the RFC is that I can more
>or less use whatever I like, but to avoid conflicts I should use the ones
>above.

If you don't have connectivity to the Internet, then yes, you can do whatever you wish. But you must use one of the above subsets if you wish to connect to the Internet. All other numbers other than the ones above are already assigned to computers somewhere else.
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Robert Ameeti

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
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