It would take more than a few sentences to
explain how IP addresses are formed and how you choose them (see Chapter 5 for a more
complete description). An example of a private IP address is 192.168.0.1.
Netmask??”The netmask is used to determine what part of an IP address represents the
network and what part represents a particular host computer. An example of a netmask
for a Class C network is 255.255.255.0. If you apply this netmask to an IP address of
192.168.0.1, for example, the network address would be 192.168.0 and the host address
1. Because 0 and 255 can??™t be assigned to a particular host, that leaves valid host numbers
between 1 and 254 available for this local network.
Activate on boot??”Some Linux install procedures ask you to indicate if you want the
network to start at boot time (you probably do if you have a LAN).
Set the host name??”This is the name identifying your computer within your domain.
For example, if your computer were named ???baskets??? in the handsonhistory.com
domain, your full host name may be baskets.handsonhistory.com. You can either
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set the domain name yourself (manually) or have it assigned automatically, if that information
is being assigned by a DHCP server (automatically via DHCP).
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