> On Tue, 19 Nov 1996, Dave Wreski wrote:
[...]
> > Well, I understand your point. However, because I am behind a
> > firewall/proxy, and because ppp defines my defaultroute, there really
> > shouldn't be a problem, right? Nevertheless, I will change my IP address
> > to represent an unused IP. Isn't there a class C that is also reserved?
>
> true. but then if you ever want to do something cool like masquerading
> you will have to renumber. and yeah, there is a group of class c's that
> are allocated as well, but I don't have the rfc handy :(
>
>From RFC 1597:
3. Private Address Space
The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has reserved the
following three blocks of the IP address space for private networks:
10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255
172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255
192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255
Bernhard.
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