[KLUG Members] Re: DSL

[Adam Williams]

> > > The math geek in me feels compelled to point out that 145-149 is
> > > FIVE IP's, not four.   :-)
> > The pragmatist (lower case "P") says 4.  'cause the router eats one,
> > so thats nowhere.
> That's phone company's DSL router, right?

Yep, the one they installed.  The one that lets me point the finger back
at them.

> On some routers, if you like fiddling with network settings, you can
> change it to recover that IP #, but it's a bit of a pain.

Yep, there is lots of IP magick one can incant in order to conserve
addresses, etc...  I like simple, otherwise debugging, etc, becomes very
wierd.  I can always pay more for additional addresses.