[Mageia-discuss] home network using broadband router

Wed Mar 7 12:07:59 CET 2012

On 07/03/2012, mageia-discuss-request at mageia.org
+<mageia-discuss-request at mageia.org> wrote:
+> ------------------------------
+>
+> Message: 2
+> Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 23:41:02 +0000
+> From: WALKER RICHARD <richard.j.walker at ntlworld.com>
+>
+> OK, you have two PCs on a private network with addresses in the range
+> 192.168.?.?.
+>
+
+Yes,
+
+> You reported only 192.?.?.? If that is accurate then the addresses are
+> public, meaning if I knew what they are then I could reach them from
+> here.
+>
+
+I am being brief and anonymous; the address are 192.168...
+
+>
+> Let's check your network mask so we know the extent of your private
+> network. Use the ifconfig command in a console (you might need to be
+> root for this) and look for the line in the output for your eth?
+> interface which looks something like this;
+>
+> inet addr:192.168.0.111  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
+>
+
+Correct, my computers has the same 'bcast' and 'mask' addresses.
+
+> You can see on mine that the mask is 255.255.255.0 which means that
+> only the eight bits of the final octet can be used on my network for
+> unique addresses - 0 to 255. So what is your network mask?
+>
+
+exactly the same
+