Comments on: Understanding Home Networking

By: Tokyo Tony

Tokyo Tony — Mon, 17 May 2010 21:07:04 +0000

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By: Joshua Price

Joshua Price — Fri, 08 May 2009 23:51:55 +0000

You beat me to it. Yes I deliberately left it at 254 as the highest usable address for a device in most circumstances.

By: Joshua Price

Joshua Price — Fri, 08 May 2009 23:51:00 +0000

You beat me to it. Yes I deliberately left it at 254 as the highest usable address for a device in most circumstances.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Fri, 08 May 2009 23:46:25 +0000

Sorry, (to clarify), it is not used in an IP address range

By: Kyle

Kyle — Fri, 08 May 2009 23:46:00 +0000

Sorry, (to clarify), it is not used in an IP address range

By: Kyle

Kyle — Fri, 08 May 2009 23:45:27 +0000

@ Frank

255 is typically reserved as a broadcast address and therefore not assigned anywhere.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Fri, 08 May 2009 23:45:00 +0000

@ Frank

255 is typically reserved as a broadcast address and therefore not assigned anywhere.

By: Frank

Frank — Fri, 08 May 2009 22:53:53 +0000

Hmmm… “IP addresses come in the form of “x.x.x.x”, each x being a number from 0 to 254″

I think you mean “from 0 to 255″

By: Frank

Frank — Fri, 08 May 2009 22:53:00 +0000

Hmmm… “IP addresses come in the form of “x.x.x.x”, each x being a number from 0 to 254″

I think you mean “from 0 to 255″

By: Joshua Price

Joshua Price — Fri, 08 May 2009 22:26:25 +0000

I included port forwarding because it’s the kind of thing that just about everyone needs these days with torrents and all. You’re right though, a security warning might be a good idea.

By: Joshua Price

Joshua Price — Fri, 08 May 2009 22:26:00 +0000

I included port forwarding because it’s the kind of thing that just about everyone needs these days with torrents and all. You’re right though, a security warning might be a good idea.

By: C. Whitman

C. Whitman — Fri, 08 May 2009 17:01:51 +0000

This is a little bit of an oversimplification of IP masquerading. I know that you were trying to make it simple, but as long as you were going to bring up ports anyway, the statement, “The rest of the world doesn’t need to know anything but your main outside IP address,” is not quite accurate. You could either say, “The rest of the world doesn’t need to know any IP address but your main outside one,” or else explain how ports figure in to translation. I know it’s a nitpick, but when simplifying I always try to stick with technical accuracy as far as possible, or clearly identify each statement that is not technically accurate, but close enough for the depth of the explanation. Incidentally, the other private address range should be listed as 10.x.x.x, since only the 10 is static.

By: C. Whitman

C. Whitman — Fri, 08 May 2009 17:01:00 +0000

By: j00p34

j00p34 — Fri, 08 May 2009 12:37:39 +0000

Nice article, I wouldn’t advice people who just learned what a ip address is to start forwarding ports in their router though. This could easily create a big security hole.

Anyone forwarding a port to their internal network should be pretty sure there are no known security leaks in the software they have listening on that port (and then still).

But it’s a nice article though!

By: j00p34

j00p34 — Fri, 08 May 2009 12:37:00 +0000

Nice article, I wouldn’t advice people who just learned what a ip address is to start forwarding ports in their router though. This could easily create a big security hole.

Anyone forwarding a port to their internal network should be pretty sure there are no known security leaks in the software they have listening on that port (and then still).

But it’s a nice article though!

By: Tony Smith

Tony Smith — Thu, 07 May 2009 03:29:37 +0000

Thanks Josh for making a layman understand Home Networking in such an easy and interesting way. I have found a website http://www.aafter.com, where finding one’s computer IP address is much easier. You simply have to type IP in the search box and the search box provides the IP address. The site also happens to be the first in the entire web world to provide a large search box where as many characters could be entered.

Josh, I look forward to more such interesting posts from you.

Tony Smith.

By: Tony Smith

Tony Smith — Thu, 07 May 2009 03:29:00 +0000

Josh, I look forward to more such interesting posts from you.

Tony Smith.