On Monday 13 June 2005 12:21, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 20:56 +0100, Kevanf1 wrote:
On 13/06/05, Susemail
wrote: How do I tell if it's a valid one? I know 127.0.0.1 is valid:
lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:8699 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:8699 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:2750512 (2.6 Mb) TX bytes:2750512 (2.6 Mb)
Jerome
There are three private address spaces that are -not- routable on the internet and are meant to be used on internal networks only. IP address range, network/mask, number of address 10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255, 10.0.0.0/8, 16,777,216 addresses 172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255, 172.16.0.0/12, 1,048,576 addresses 192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255, 192.168.0.0/16, 65,536 addresses
Check http://www.idevelopment.info/data/Networking/Networking_Basics/BASICS_Priva te_Address_Space.shtml for further info.
-- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
When I run smbclient to list my shares I get this:
# smbclient -L Linux Error connecting to 127.0.0.2 (Connection refused) Connection to Linux failed
So...is this a valid address?? Jerome