Re: Access limitations(?), and moving to a simple LAN

In article <4db757f5f0Jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Jeremy C B Nicoll <Jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> My router comes with address 192.168.1.1 so I've changed the IP
> addresses of both machines. The hosts files on each now contain:

> 192.168.1.1 router
> 192.168.1.101 iyonix
> 192.168.1.201 riscpc
> 192.168.1.255 jnall

> and from each machine I can ping all three devices. When I use the
> broadcast address the response from ping is a bit puzzling:

Can't remenber why but I don't think using 255 as the last number is a good
idea. Plenty more to choose from.

Martin Longley

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