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   From: Joe LaVigne    
   Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu   
   Subject: Re: Help with Network Settings in 6.06, Puleeez !   
   Date: 5 Mar 2007 03:26:08 GMT   
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   On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 00:32:28 +0000, Josiah Jenkins wrote:   
      
   > Whilst perusing Usenet on 4 Mar 2007 23:20:27 GMT, I read these words   
   > from Joe LaVigne  :   
   >    
   >>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.   
   >    
   > Aaah, I misunderstood. When SINNER used 'mask'   
   > I assumed he was referring to the Subnet mask !   
   >    
   > What he (and you) are saying is that I don't need to   
   > bother disguising my IP addresses ?   
   >    
   > -- jjj   
      
   Right.  Even if I wanted to, I couldn't connect to your machine through   
   that private IP.  I would need to know the publi address, and a port that   
   is NATted through...   
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