Re: [Sheflug] Re: Network

[Steve Tickle <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 13:45 03/05/02 +0000, Richard Ibbotson wrote:
>Darrell
>
> > laptop (192.168.0.3) - main machine (192.168.0.1) - firewall
> > (192.168.0.2)
>
> > But when I try and ping either 192.168.0.2 or 192.168.0.1 no
> > packets get returned. Likewise when I ping 192.168.0.3 from the
> > main machine or the smoothwall box. Am I doing anything wrong?
>
>Your main machine should be 192.168.0.2 and you firewall should be
>192.168.0.1

Does it really matter? I always thought that as long as you obviously 
avoided addresses like 192.168.0.0 and 192.168.1.255 one address was much 
the same as another and it was just a matter of personal choice over 
convention.

Others may know differently.


Steve

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