From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 9 11:26:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from services.webwarrior.net (overlord-host99.dsl.visi.com [209.98.86.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5240237B417 for ; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 11:26:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from twincat.vladsempire.net (hutch-788.hutchtel.net [206.10.71.88]) by services.webwarrior.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A18435C for ; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 13:26:39 -0600 (CST) Received: by twincat.vladsempire.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 4F4DF3861; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 13:26:42 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 13:26:42 +0000 From: Josh Paetzel To: Joe & Fhe Barbish Cc: FBSD Questions Subject: Re: internal private IP address standards? Message-ID: <20011209132642.A420@twincat.vladsempire.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from barbish@a1poweruser.com on Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 09:52:31AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 09:52:31AM -0500, Joe & Fhe Barbish wrote: > When setting up a new FBSD box and LAN environment behind it, > what are the rules or standards for selecting the IP address > numbering scheme. I have read unrelated documentation that calls > this the internal IP address scheme or private IP address. > The mandatory requirement is that these IP numbers will never > be seen by the out side world. That being said, I take it that > I can use any IP address numbers I want. > > Thanks > > Joe The RFC that deals with this is 1918. It assigns some IP addresses that are specifically to be used for private TCP/IP networks. 10.0.0.0 10.255.255.255 172.16.0.0 172.31.255.255 192.168.0.0 192.168.255.255 Josh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message