[dba-Tech] Modems

Drew Wutka dbatech at wolfwares.com
Fri Aug 22 09:54:59 CDT 2003


Why's that?  I've used 192.168.0.1 through 192.168.0.255 all the time...our
network here uses that range.

Drew
----- Original Message -----
From: "Foote, Chris" <Chris.Foote at uk.thalesgroup.com>
To: "'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'"
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Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 1:49 AM
Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] Modems


> One minor correction Drew.
>
> If Steven's IP addresses are from the 192.168.0.x block with a subnet mask
> of 255.255.255.0, 192.168.0.0 to 255 may well not be useable as this is
> subnet zero. The lowest block of addresses will be 192.168.1.1 to
> 192.168.1.254
>
> Regards!
> Chris Foote
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Drew Wutka [mailto:dbatech at wolfwares.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 7:14 PM
> > To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> > Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Modems
> >
> >
> > MAC in MAC Address stands for Media Access Control.
> >
> > As for your questions.  First, no, a DHCP request will not be
> > sent through a
> > router, so it will always stay within a LAN.  In your
> > situation, you are
> > probably getting IP Addresses from your cable modem, since it
> > is probably
> > running it's own DHCP server.  Are you running ICS (Internet
> > Connection
> > Sharing), or are you just plugging all of your machines into
> > the cable mode?
> >
> > As far as assigning IP Addresses, look at what is being set
> > by the machines
> > that work.  They are probably 192.168.0.x with a subnet of
> > 255.255.255.0.
> > To manually set these, you need to go to your network
> > properties, and then
> > go into the properties of the TCP/IP protocols.  (The
> > winipcfg just shows
> > the current settings, it doesn't let you change them.).
> >
> > To view the settings in W2k, from a command prompt, type ipconfig. (or
> > ipconfig /all to get more information).
> >
> > As far as the pinging goes, I think this is a name resolution
> > issue.  Once
> > you have the IP Addresses for both machines, ping them with
> > the -a command
> > (forgot to include that in my little article!)
> >
> > such as:
> >
> > ping -a 192.168.0.4
> >
> > When that pings, it will do a reverse resolution, and tell
> > you the computer
> > name AND domain name of the machine at 192.168.0.4.  (ie,
> > CompA.SomeDomain.net)
> >
> > Drew
> >
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