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'" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >