IP's for Peer to Peer Home Network

[compengineer1]

I'm a little new to the Networking Neighborhood, so I was just wondering if the IP addresses come with the network card or do I have to do something to get them.


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[Omletteboy]

The ip address comes from your ISP provider. You pop in the network card in your computer and have tcp/ip installed, it will detect your ip when you boot up.

[compengineer1]

But what if I'm using an ISP like AOL where my ip changes all the time.

[theENiGMA]

IP addresses are identification numbers to identify your computer on the internet. Kind of like a street address. I don't quite understand what you are asking. If you have AOL or the like (any dial-in service), your IP address is assigned every time you dial up. It's almost always different. Dedicated ISP's, such as cable modems, assign you a static IP address. For home networking, there are IP addresses that were set aside for this purpose. 192.168.0.xxx (xxx is between 000 and 255). If you needed to set up IP addresses for a home network, the first computer would be 192.168.0.1. The second one would be 192.168.0.2, and so on. Possible applications for using IP addresses include internet connection sharing. Although in Windows 98 ICS is done automatically, it does assign each computer a networking IP address. Unless it is already in use, the computer directly connected to you ISP (the "server") will be 192.168.0.1. None of this probably helps with your question, but I thought you might like a little information none the less.
-KEiTH

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[This message has been edited by theENiGMA (edited 07-01-2000).]

[glc]

If you are installing network cards to share an Internet connection, Win 98SE ICS will assign the IP addresses. If you are networking just to do file and printer sharing, use NetBEUI instead of TCP/IP and IP addresses will not be necessary.

[bob]

suggest 192.168.1.xxx

xxx > 0 and < 255
subnet mask 255.255.255.0 on both

Proxy software should do this for you