Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!feeder2.ecngs.de!ecngs!feeder.ecngs.de!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.bt.com!news.bt.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2012 03:56:39 -0500 From: spampling Subject: Re: Moving ISP Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.misc Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2012 08:02:56 +0100 Message-ID: <52cad690c6spam.pling@btinternet.com> References: <52c95573badave@davenoise.co.uk> <52ca5edc29dave@davenoise.co.uk> <0c8c63ca52.Brian@bhowlett.plus.net> <52ca6478dfdave@davenoise.co.uk> <52ca6e84d2dave@davenoise.co.uk> User-Agent: Pluto/2.05-a1 (RISC-OS/4.02) NewsHound/v1.50-32 Organization: Que? Orga-what Lines: 14 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-AuthenticatedUsername: NoAuthUser X-Trace: sv3-1bBzm5hCjOU5Cr/wdBztKv4oiBPyXBvWVcO8ddvROCeo28b9XgV6u6HjNjHy617bG2daJ4nFyO7Ii6r!Rglue6Z76a8xihHbs8MVozVF2wkrBlQJO84BVnM68gsjfipwTO01AszCNZtyUa3c9HGG6qo= X-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1729 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.acorn.misc:6369 In article , Jim Nagel wrote: > (10.0.0.xx seems tidier.) Not really, the 10. range is intended to be used as /8 (old class A) with rather large numbers of hosts in the subnet. 192.168. is intended for use as a set of 192.168.x,y /24 (old class C) ranges with just 254 host addresses. Some (slightly naff) network equipment ignores the mask setting you give and applies the natural mask - which causes problems. -- Steve Pampling