[windows2000] Re: 192.168.*.* - why?
- From: "Chris McEvoy" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 16:49:01 -0000
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> From: Chris McEvoy=20
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> Subject: [windows2000] Re: 192.168.*.* - why?
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> Think it's arbitrary (10.x.x.x is also used for internal=20
> addresses) so that internal IP addresses do not clash with=20
> external addresses. I don't think MS had a hand in the=20
> decision. They only realised there was an Internet in 1996!
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Costanzo, Ray [mailto:rcostanzo@xxxxxxxxxxx]=3D20
> > Sent: Monday 18 November 2002 13:59
> > To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [windows2000] 192.168.*.* - why?
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> > Hi list,
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> > I'm just curious about something. It seems that most networks use
> > 192.168.*.* for their internal addresses. Why? It=20
> doesn't=3D20 really=20
> >matter, does it? Isn't 192.168.*.* completely=3D20 arbitrary? My=20
> >theory on how this came to be the norm is that=3D20 MS used those=20
> >addresses in some samples in some books or=3D20 something, and =
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> >started using that and it just became=3D20 the norm. But=20
> then there's=20
> >that whole Internet connection=3D20 sharing feature that came out in =
> >what, W98SE? With that, the=3D20 computer that's sharing its=20
> Internet=20
> >connection will be=3D20 192.168.1.1. So, I imagine that it's coded=20
> >somewhere into=3D20 other OS'es to look to see if 192.168.1.1 can be =
> >used as a=3D20 gateway when the user does not specify an IP=20
> >configuration. =3D20 So what came first? 192.168.*.* or computers=20
> >looking to=3D20 192.168.1.1 as a gateway? Or what my real=20
> question is=20
> >is why=3D20 192.168.*.*?
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> > Thanks,
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> > Ray at work
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