Re: networking trouble

[Jonathan Q <jq@example.com>]

Scott Stone (SStone@example.com) wrote:

> Jonathan there's nothing wrong with his IP setup.  It's perfectly valid to
> use 192.168.0.0/16 as long as you dont try to advertise it to the internet

It might work, but when you use a 255.255.0.0 netmask, you're trying
to say "My network is the /16 from 196.168.0.0 to 192.168.255.255" 
which, of course, it's not.  As far as everyone knows, his network 
is 192.168.1.0/24.  

Just because you aren't advertising a network to the Internet,
that doesn't mean you shouldn't set everything up correctly.

Jonathan