[Gllug] Networks and Red Hat

[tet at accucard.com]

>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?

Convention. Many places use the highest non-broadcast IP address as the
router, while others (as you suggest) use the lowest available IP. RH
just happens to go with the former option. Neither is right or wrong.

Tet

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