At 1:58 PM +1200 10/3/01, James Pluck wrote:
>With the quantity of advanced networking users on this list I thought I may
>be able to get some help.
>
>On my lan at home I use 192.168.1.x My friend's lan is on 192.168.0.x I am
>quite frequently around at his place with my pc for lan gaming sessions,
>etc. In my config I have a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 (pretty standard I
>think) but ISTR a discussion once (not in this forum) that said that a
>simple alteration of this subnet mask would allow me to connect to my
>friend's lan without needing to change my fixed IP address.

Sure. A mask of 255.255.254.0 will work. Or 255.255.0.0. Or a
number of other possibilities.

This will of course only work if you physically take your PC and plug
it into his network -- it's not going to work over the internet due
to NAT, non-routing of these special IP numbers etc

-- Bruce

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Received on Wed Oct 3 14:25:57 2001