Re: Localtalk gateway/bridge

["william strutts" <wrstrutts1@nospam.home.com>]

"Mark Cummings" <figjams@primus.com.au> wrote in message
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> OK, thanks for that info, I do have dial up assess, and this is not likely
> to change until a) we get cable in our town, and b) the price of cable
drops
> below phone line + ISP rental. My main PC is set to 192.168.0.1 and all
> other PC's and Mac's and Apple IIGS are otherwise, with only the last
digit
> changed.

You have 255 ip addresses for a Class C Address. You can also
use 10.0.0.xxx which is Class A and there is a class B but the IP
range escapes me at the moment.  I would have to look it up but you
 potentially have 765 different addresses that are reserved
for private networks.

Cable modem in my town is $32.95 per month since my former ISP
was charging $21.95 and it was an additional ~$23.95 for an additional
phone line.  I think it works out much better and its is a heck a lot
faster than dialup.

> Yep, sounds easy, but I think I need to get a book or some one-on-one
> tuition. I don't see why I couldn't set my home network up with their own
IP
> address, I'm not likely to outgrow 10 or so networked computers. Currently
I
> have about 7 and I think I'm near the maximum.
> If DHCP assigns the IP address', do they change each boot up and how do I
> know what it is for pinging ?

They can change at each bootup but it is not guaranteed. Some DHCP
servers assign IP licenses to each computer attached to it and then
periodically when the license expires, it reconfigures the IP address.
However, I have had my IP on my ISP for months now.

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