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Denys Beachemin writes:
>Never use addresses ending in 0, 1 or 255.
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>.1 is used as the router address between the network and the rest of the
>Internet
This is not really correct. The router can have any address. By
convention, the gateway address is either 1 (really 1 + the network
address, as Mark Klein explained) or ~(netmask) - 1 (e.g., 254 for a
255.255.255.0 netmask), but that's just a convention. In fact, networks
can have more than one router. There's no reason to avoid an address
ending in .1.
-- Bruce
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