RE: [Sheflug] Networking

["Lewis Ashton" <nospam [at] supanet.com>]

Hi Sammy,

there are a couple of IP address ranges that are sensible to use. 10.x.x.x
or 192.168.x.x are standard reserved networks for private use. I forget, but
I think there are a couple of other blocks that are reserved for private
use. Personally I prefer the 10.x range as its so bloody obvious to me even
when I've got a hangover. Make sure that if you have a connection to the
Internet that you've got IP masquerading set up so that none of these
addresses become publicly routable...it'll cause you major problems!

Linux Journal April 2000 had a couple of good articles about setting up a
home network. Their articles must be online somewhere.
HTH
Lewis

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sammy@rata.vuw.ac.nz [mailto:nospam [at] rata.vuw.ac.nz]On Behalf Of
> sammy
> Sent: 05 February 2001 20:56
> To: sheflug [at] vuw.ac.nz
> Subject: [Sheflug] Networking
>
>
> I now got my linksys NIC to work once i found the netdriver.tgz file via
> ftp.
> I would like to be able to build a lan using my linux machine and my
> brother's win98 machine the have the same typ of NIC card  what I need
> to know is how to setup a basic test network. What ip address and so on
> i need to get my machine talking to my brother's.
>
> All the best sammy
>
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