Re: IP Addresses and netmask

From: Phillip Windell (_at_.)
Date: 11/29/04 

Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:51:05 -0600

"Steve W" <antispamsteveW@=No-Spam=.org> wrote in message
news:%23O7CLiI1EHA.3336@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> I've inherited the network from the previous manager. I (obviously) am not
a
> network expert, but thought that the addresses looked unusual. I very much
> doubt if they've been allocated by an ISP. Our network is not connected to
> the Internet except via a router/gateway for browsing and email.

Then it *is* connected to the Network. At best it means that you will never
be able to access any Internet Sites that happen to begin with 128.66.1.*
because your system will improperly interpret it as being local on your LAN
and will not attempt to traverse the Internet. 

-- 
Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com

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