[plug] Dumb questino on networking

[John Summerfield]

On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, Mike Holland wrote:

> On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, John Darrington wrote:
> 
> > As it is so trivial, I know that no-one will mind answering this.
> 
> John, it _is_ trivial.
> 
> > Kernel routing table
> > Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags MSS    Window Use Iface
> > 203.7.224.8     *               255.255.255.255 UH    1500   0        0 ppp0
> > 192.168.0.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     1500   0        1 eth0
> 
> The '192.168.0' isnt a 'real' network address. You cant use it on the net.

It IS a real address. It's specfically reserved by the Internet gods for
use in private networks. As are
All 192.168.*.*
176.16.*.* through 176.31.*.*
10.*.*.*

These IP addresses can be used freely and in the knowledge that hosts
using them are inaccessible from the public network. 


Cheers
John Summerfield
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