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you don't need to name your router in your config...the 30 ip addresses are
Re: IP Address assignment
From: andrew
Date: Thursday, November 2, 2000
Time: 2:57:46 pm
all usable, so make your router .94.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Harry Mueller" <hmueller@maxsolns.com>
To: "QuickDNS Talk" <quickdns-talk@lists.menandmice.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 5:36 PM
Subject: Re: IP Address assignment
> At 16:02 -0600 11/02/00, Mia's Virtual Post Office wrote:
>
> >When it comes to your router address, "neatness" will have nothing to do
> >with it.. It is going to depend on how your ISP has subnetted the block
> >and or blocks that they have given you. Let us say you were given a /26
> >or 64 IP addresses.. The first and last IP will be network and broadcast,
> >and cannot be used by a router or any other network device for that
> >matter.. So, no, you cannot make the first IP of your block the router
> >address in this case. What you would generally do is make the next IP in
> >line your router address and every other subsequent IP from there could
> >be used for whatever Network device you want. Now this is just one
> >example.. But again, if they gave you a /26 and it was 200.100.21.192/26
> >then your router would be 200.100.21.193 and every other ip from there
> >could be used for whatever, except for 200.100.21.255. This also depends
> >on if you have control over your router, and may depend on how your ISP
> >sets this up for you.. If you are handling your router, you can always
> >break up or subnet your block into even smaller blocks for VLans, or for
> >static routes to other devices. So to make a long story short, yes the
> >router address will be important, but no, the QDNS servers IP address
> >will not.
>
> So let me see if I understand correctly. My ISP gave me 30 ip
> addresses, xxx.xxx.xxx.65 to xxx.xxx.xxx.94, with a subnet mask of
> 255.255.255.224. Out of these 30 addresses only 28 are usable for
> network devices, .65 would be network and .94 broadcast, and I can
> assign the router any address but the network and broadcast.
>
> There would be no need for a DNS entry for the network and
> broadcast addresses, right?
>
> Related question, is there a recommended naming scheme for
> the router similar to the www., mail., etc scheme?
>
> Thanks,
> Harry
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