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|    TERRY ROATI to Bj”rn Felten    |
|    RE: An IP4 question, if that's OK?    |
|    04 May 19 09:39:56    |
      TID: PX/Win v7.0 PX96-0649M       MSGID: 3:640/1321 2786878B       REPLY: 2:203/2 5ccc9a96       TZUTC: 1000              Download advanced IP Scanner, run a scan an see what it finds.              Terry Roati              On May 03, 2019 09:44pm, Bj”rn Felten wrote to All:               BF> Maybe this is totally OT here, but given the amount of traffic here        BF> recently maybe some of you can find the time to educate me?               BF> I've been given an IP4 number from my provider in the third of four        BF> /26 subnets. I.e. I have x.x.x.157 with a subnet mask of        BF> 255.255.255.192 and, of course, default gateway x.x.x.129               BF> I suppose the other 61 IP numbers in my subnet have been reserved        BF> mainly to my neighbours. Maybe not necessarily, but probably, no?               BF> If so, if I find out that one of the other 61 IP numbers was given        BF> to my neighbour friend, wouldn't it be possible to connect directly        BF> to his computer without having to go via the default gateway?               BF> Wouldn't that mean that we then can have direct fiber connection        BF> without the artificial speed restrictions that our respective        BF> subscription results in?               BF> Or am I totally out in the blue here? 8-)                      BF> ..               BF> --- Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; sv-SE; rv:1.9.1.16)        BF> Gecko/20101125 * Origin: news://eljaco.se (2:203/2)              Terry - 3:640/1231 (tfb-bbs.org)              ... Platinum Xpress & Wildcat!..... Nice!!!!       --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v7.0        * Origin: The File Bank BBS! (3:640/1321)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 15/2 19/10 154/10 203/0 221/0 6 226/17 229/354 426       SEEN-BY: 229/1014 240/5832 249/206 317 400 280/464 5003 5006 5555       SEEN-BY: 292/854 310/31 317/3 322/757 342/200 393/68 423/120 460/58       SEEN-BY: 633/280 640/305 1321 1384 712/848 770/1 2452/250 3634/12       SEEN-BY: 3828/7 5019/40 5020/545 1042 12000 5053/58       PATH: 640/1321 1384 280/5555 464 229/426           |
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