Subject Re: [ib-support] accessing a FB db in a peer-to-peer network
Author Frank Ingermann
Hi Duilio/Scott/all,

Scott Taylor wrote:
> You may not want to use that subnet though, it belongs to Johns Hopkins
> University in Baltimore, MD. If you ever put those machines on the
> Internet it could cause you grief. Better to use the acceptable, private
> network, address subnet, 198.168.x.x NETMASK 255.255.255.0 (there are two
> other private subnets for large LANs too, but they are obviously beyond the
> scope of this discussion).
>
> ;)
>
> Scott

in case someone is looking for more information on the IP range/subnet
subject, here's a nice small and comprehensive document about that (~29k):
http://www.robustdc.com/library/an029.pdf

regards,
fingerman

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