[vox-tech] What address to put my gateway/router

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Rod Roark wrote:

>On Tuesday 30 November 2004 05:17 pm, Jay Strauss wrote:
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>>Hi,
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>>Simple question (probably going to be one of those, "depends").
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>>My linksys router's default address is: 192.168.1.1, when I install 
>>Linux (Debian) it's default gateway address: 192.168.1.254.  Not that 
>>either of them are hard to change but...
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>>What address do you guys normally put your router?
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>Well, my local network used to be 192.168.1.* until a client
>wanted me to be on their VPN which also had that address, so
>I changed mine to 192.168.8.* and it's been that way ever
>since.  Why 8?  Because it's fastest to type when the
>previously typed digit was 8.
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>By that reasoning, I guess my gateway box (which is also my
>nameserver, web server, mail server, NTP server, etc.)
>should be 192.168.8.8, but it's 192.168.8.1.
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The .254 gateway address is old school, and I guess that the folks who 
wrote the linux setup script picked .254 to show that they have been 
around for a while.  It really doesn't matter what the gateway is ( as 
long as it's on the same network ), but all of the new consumer products 
generally have the gateway at .1, whether thats 10.0.0.1 or 192.168.33.1

I will normally leave the gateway at .1 because that seems to be the new 
standard.

Mark