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From: Joe LaVigne 
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu
Subject: Re: Help with Network Settings in 6.06, Puleeez !
Date: 4 Mar 2007 23:20:27 GMT
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On Sun, 04 Mar 2007 23:12:17 +0000, Josiah Jenkins wrote:

> Whilst perusing Usenet on Sun, 04 Mar 2007 22:49:55 GMT, I read these
> words from SINNER <99nesorjd@gates_of_hell.invalid> :
> 
>>* Josiah Jenkins wrote in alt.os.linux.ubuntu:
>>
>>[...]
>>
>>> Connection
>>> Network Name = usr9106 - (USR9106 Wireless router)
>>> Key type = Hexadecimal
>>> WEP = 
>>> Configuration = Static IP Address
>>> IP Address = 192.168.1.xx - T21 Laptop with Ubuntu install
>>> Subnet mask = 255.255.255.0
>>> Gateway address 192.168.1.aa - USR9106 Wireless router
>>
>>I cant really help, sorry, but I can tell you it is not necessary to
>>mask 192.xxx.xxx.xxx. 
> 
> Subnet mask is entered automagically !

What he meant is you needn't use 192.168.1.xx.  It would be perfectly fine
to put 192.168.1.17 (or whatever) in a post, since from outside of your
network, the address isn't reachable.  Private IP's (192.168, 172.17, 10.)
are not routable.
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