Default IP Address on All Distributions

Marcel tanuva at googlemail.com
Thu Dec 18 15:55:08 CET 2008


Am Thursday 18 December 2008 16:46:55 schrieb Esben Stien:
> Why on earth would you choose 192.168.0.*?
>
> This is probably the most common IP address on an internal network in
> the world and of course this means problems.
>
> If your network is configured with this IP range and you pop a
> freerunner in, it of course cause a world of pain. Please choose a
> more sensible default.

Nearly every network I know uses 192.168.1.*, so the default is perfectly 
fine... Although something like 192.168.64.* could be statistically more 
failsafe.

--
Marcel




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