RE: [K12OSN] Switch question
Stephen Liu (satimis@writeme.com)
Wed, 05 Jun 2002 10:48:35 +0800
Hi James
Thanks for your detail information.
At 10:36 PM 2002/6/4 -0400, you wrote:
>Most broadband routers give out IPs from the RFC1918 reserved Class C
>via DHCP (Most often 192.168.1.x)
>
>A Class C IP range (/24 in CIDR notation) holds 256 IPs (192.168.1.0 ->
>192.168.1.255)
>
>.0, you can't use because it is the network number.
>.1, you can't use because it is usually the network gateway (the
>internal interface IP on the broadband router)
>.255, you can't use because it is the broadcast address.
>
>So in the end, you can have about 253 open IPs for workstations or
>servers which the router can distribute via DHCP. That's assuming you
>add more hubs/switches via the ports on the back of the broadband
>router.
Is it for internal (inhouse) redistribution to the workstations, each of
which has its own IP address. Because in my understanding the Internet
only assigns one IP to each server.
If I am wrong, please correct me.
Thanks in advance.
Stephen
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