Sorry, I guess I wasn't being clear.
To me, 'between 0 and 255' means 1 - 254.
The naming conventions are good advice.
charles
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Dave Ihnat wrote:
>
> Charles Galpin wrote:
> >Use any any numbers between 0 and 255 for the boxes, but it's better to
> >keep them close together for future subnetting/expansion.
> >
> >Why not number them 1 - 5?
>
> This advice has one error, and one violation of convention that is
> sometimes ensconced in software.
>
> In any IP address--let's take the Class 'C' network 192.168.1 for
> convenience--the zero and all-bits-set values cannot be used for
> devices. For Class 'C', this means '192.168.1.0' and '192.168.1.255'
> cannot be used. Why? The latter is the network broadcast address.
> The former is a bit of history--the zero address used to be the broadcast
> address--and a bit of followup convention to avoid the special use of that
> value, to refer to the entire network. Under no circumstances ever assign
> these values to an actual device.
>
> There are also standard conventions that are in use when assigning
> network devices. The '1' device, e.g., 192.168.1.1, is by convention
> the gateway for that network. Many programs and network devices will
> default to this. And any experienced person working on a network, in
> lieu of explicit information otherwise, will assume this first.
>
> Next, low-number devices have conventionally been used for network components
> themselves, e.g., '2' commonly used to be the address of the first terminal
> server, etc. This wasn't/isn't nearly as entrenched as the default gateway
> address, but it's still common to reserve the low addresses. It doesn't
> cost you anything, and will look familiar to anyone working the network,
> to start workstations at something like '100'.
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