From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 25 14:35:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AECE037BA2D for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 14:35:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.15 #1) id 13HBm6-0004fQ-00; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 21:58:02 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.15 #1) id 13HBm6-000MAh-00; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 21:58:02 +0100 Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 21:58:02 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Eric Ogren Cc: John Michelini , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pedantic PPP Primer clarification Message-ID: <20000725215802.L28657@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <009501bff5dd$7b4bb580$eeb2b13f@oemcomputer> <20000725002517.A327@earthlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000725002517.A327@earthlink.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Eric Ogren wrote: > On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 07:10:12PM -0700, John Michelini wrote: > >> 2) Will I run into problems if I use the example IP addresses in the Primer >> for Creating the List of LAN hosts (in the /etc/hosts directory) for my >> hosts? > > Nope; 192.168.* addresses are specifically reserved for private networks, > so you can use them without problems. I'll fix the primer to make it clear you can use these addresses. I'll also update it to say RFC 1918 instead of RFC 1597 since the latter is obsolete. ... John, if the text had said: The IP addresses on the Ethernet side of this sample LAN have been taken from a pool of addresses reserved by RFC 1918 for use on private LANs, so you are free to use these actual IP addresses on your own LAN if you want. IP addresses are assigned as follows: would that have been clear enough? :-) If so, I'll commit that. If not, improvements are welcome. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D FreeBSD Documentation Project / To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message