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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: IP address for stand alone machines Date: 30 Dec 1995 00:21:09 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4c20ll$b4r@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4c18df$l3m@news.internetmci.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 pierson@mgmt.purdue.edu writes: > I am setting up a network at home for about 5 machines. It will > not be connected to the Internet but I want to use TCP/IP to the > Freebsd machine. I have seen a ip number range reserved for use in > stand alone networks but I cannot find the number again. Can anyone > point me in the right direction for the source or send me the range. > thanks. # According to RFC 1597, you can use the following IP networks for # private nets which will never be connected to the Internet: # # 10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255 # 172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255 # 192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255 # # In case you want to be able to connect to the Internet, you need (Part of the default /etc/hosts file.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)