Re: OT: IP address

["Patricia M. Godfrey" priscamg@xxxxxxxx]

flash wrote:

Strictly speaking, you don't 'get' an IP address from ping. That is,
ping does not assign IP addresses. What ping does is determine whether
the interface bearing the address is reachable. How the interface 'got'
the address is another matter.
Ouch! Touché. Of course I didn't mean "acquire"; I meant "make known
to me."
There are IP addresses reserved for private use; they are non-routable
in the Internet. They are: 10.0.0.0 (you fill in the zeros), 172.16.0.0
to 172.31.0.0, and 192.168.0.0.
Well, what ping  revealed didn't begin with any of those
numbers. I'm not going to say here, in an open, unencrypted message
what it was (I trust you guys, but e-mail is NOT secure; and we don't
know who might be lurking). I must try the next time I'm online and
see if I am told the same thing.
But if I run ipconfig from a DOS prompt, I get 2 adapters, one of
which has nothing assigned and the other of which reports the same
number. So I assume (fully aware of flash's strictures on assuming)
that the "blank" one is the Modem/Dial-up Adapter, and the other is my
real NIC.
Why the blazes don't the books ever tell you this kind of stuff?
Thanks, flash, for IP 101, and apologies to the folks who know it
already for wasting bandwidth.
--
Patricia M. Godfrey
PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx