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   From: Joe LaVigne    
   Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu   
   Subject: Re: Help with Network Settings in 6.06, Puleeez !   
   Date: 4 Mar 2007 23:20:27 GMT   
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   On Sun, 04 Mar 2007 23:12:17 +0000, Josiah Jenkins wrote:   
      
   > Whilst perusing Usenet on Sun, 04 Mar 2007 22:49:55 GMT, I read these   
   > words from SINNER <99nesorjd@gates_of_hell.invalid> :   
   >    
   >>* Josiah Jenkins wrote in alt.os.linux.ubuntu:   
   >>   
   >>[...]   
   >>   
   >>> Connection   
   >>> Network Name = usr9106 - (USR9106 Wireless router)   
   >>> Key type = Hexadecimal   
   >>> WEP =    
   >>> Configuration = Static IP Address   
   >>> IP Address = 192.168.1.xx - T21 Laptop with Ubuntu install   
   >>> Subnet mask = 255.255.255.0   
   >>> Gateway address 192.168.1.aa - USR9106 Wireless router   
   >>   
   >>I cant really help, sorry, but I can tell you it is not necessary to   
   >>mask 192.xxx.xxx.xxx.    
   >    
   > Subnet mask is entered automagically !   
      
   What he meant is you needn't use 192.168.1.xx.  It would be perfectly fine   
   to put 192.168.1.17 (or whatever) in a post, since from outside of your   
   network, the address isn't reachable.  Private IP's (192.168, 172.17, 10.)   
   are not routable.   
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