Alternate IP Address?

[Limerick]

Hi Folks,

I've used the 192.168.1.x addresses to connect a couple of machines here at home. This works well for me and for multitudes of others.

I've recently moved to a cable modem here, and went ahead and used the NIC that I already had in the machine to connect to the cable modem. I'm now about to put a second NIC in this main machine so as to re-establish my networking with the other computer. Besides the above IP address, it seems like I read somewhere that there is another set beginning with 10.x.x.x that can be used in such a home setting. Any insights on this are welcomed! Thanks!

Limerick
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[Mulder]

You are correct. Private IP address ranges as specified by Internet Request for Comments (RFC) 1918 are:

10.0.0.0 – 10.255.255.255
172.16.0.0 – 172.31.255.255
192.168.0.0 – 192.168.255.255

For details, see Public vs. private IP addresses (http://www.microsoft.com/TechNet/network/tcpimp.asp).

[This message has been edited by Mulder (edited 09-10-2000).]