[Gllug] Networks and Red Hat

[Xander D Harkness]

I was under the impression that the standard for networking was as
follows:

first IP in range is broadcast source (i.e. 192.168.1.0), second IP is
router (192.168.1.1), last IP is Broadcast (192.168.1.255).

Whenever you set up networking in Red Hat Linux at install and begin
entering IP addresses it always guesses that the router (default
gateway) is the penultimate IP (i.e. 192.168.1.254) and the DNS is the
second (192.168.1.1)

My question is why?

I am not looking for a RH slagging session as it is my distro of choice.

Cheers
Xander




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