P2P IP address

[s0ccergoof]

I am looking to set up my two computers with a crossover cable to share files, one place that I looked at that had info about this gave specific ip addresses to put in the network properties. The ip address I am wondering about is 192.168.0.1, is this a default P2P address? If so, why these numbers? Just seems kind of crazy to me, but whatever.

 

[L3Guy]

s0ccergoof;



<< The IP address I am wondering about is 192.168.0.1, is this a default P2P address? If so, why these numbers? Just seems kind of crazy to me, but whatever. >>



The TCP/IP standards have set aside three ranges of IP addresses for private networks.
Sorry, don't remember the RFC document # off the top of my head.

Basically, three ranges that you can use that will not be assigned to any network on the internet. That allows people to use these addresses, along with NAT (Network Address Translation)
to have private networks that can still access the internet.

There is one range in each of the Classes of networks.
Class A: 10.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 or /8
Class B: 172.16.0.0 255.255.0.0 to 172.31.0.0 255.255.0.0 /16
Alternately; 172.16.0.0 255.224.0.0 or /12
Class C: 192.168.0.0 255.255.255.0 to 192.168.255.0 255.255.255.0 /24
Alternately 192.168.0.0 255.255.0.0 /16

The &quot;router&quot; has chosen the &quot;first&quot; address in one of these ranges as the default.
while the address could be just about anything,(ignoring landmines) this is a very reasonable choice.

HTH

Doug