only use private address

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Hello,

I have 20 XP boxes to move from one site to another.
Right now they are on 192.44.62.0/24 subnet.
Behind a small router in a shared comms room doing connection sharing.
However the new site which is being prepared right now has a new
belkin router and is apparently refusing to allocate an address that
is not a private one 192.168 etc.
I dont quite understand this and want to keep the old subnet so I dont
have to chance the XP IPs which are written up in various docs.
I dont quite see how in the previous set up 192.42 etc was OK but not
now.

Any clues?

TIA

Ton
 
ton said:
Hello,

I have 20 XP boxes to move from one site to another.
Right now they are on 192.44.62.0/24 subnet.
Behind a small router in a shared comms room doing connection sharing.
However the new site which is being prepared right now has a new
belkin router and is apparently refusing to allocate an address that
is not a private one 192.168 etc.
I dont quite understand this and want to keep the old subnet so I dont
have to chance the XP IPs which are written up in various docs.
I dont quite see how in the previous set up 192.42 etc was OK but not
now.

Any clues?

TIA

Ton
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192.42.62.0/24 is a range of public IP addresses. A network should
only use public IP addresses that were allocated to it by an Internet
service provider or by a body such as the Internet Assigned Numbers
Authority. Using public addresses on a private network can prevent
users from reaching some web sites and Internet servers.

The Belkin router apparently enforces this restriction, while your
previous router didn't. If you want to continue to use the public IP
addresses, it appears that you'll have to use a different router.
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ton de w said:
Hello,

I have 20 XP boxes to move from one site to another.
Right now they are on 192.44.62.0/24 subnet.
Behind a small router in a shared comms room doing connection sharing.
However the new site which is being prepared right now has a new
belkin router and is apparently refusing to allocate an address that
is not a private one 192.168 etc.
I dont quite understand this and want to keep the old subnet so I dont
have to chance the XP IPs which are written up in various docs.
I dont quite see how in the previous set up 192.42 etc was OK but not
now.

Any clues?

TIA

Ton
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In addition to Steve's reply -

* Use DHCP
* Use DHCP reservations for the few machines that might require non-changing
IPs
 
Hello,

I have 20 XP boxes to move from one site to another.
Right now they are on 192.44.62.0/24 subnet.
Behind a small router in a shared comms room doing connection sharing.
However the new site which is being prepared right now has a new
belkin router and is apparently refusing to allocate an address that
is not a private one 192.168 etc.
I dont quite understand this and want to keep the old subnet so I dont
have to chance the XP IPs which are written up in various docs.
I dont quite see how in the previous set up 192.42 etc was OK but not
now.

Any clues?

TIA

Ton
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You need to access the router's internal configuration (usually web
pages) and change the "lan" settings to this subnet.

BE CAREFUL! 192.42.xxx.xxx is a Internet "visable" IP address
network scheme. Unless you, or your Internet provide, "owns" this IP
address submet mask, you will be causing a huge problem.
 
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