BT Fusion Device Address

Briefly assisting a friend set up his new BT Fusion system the device
appeared to have the address of 192.168.1.254 and networked computers
were allocated addresess below this number.

I initially tried to alter the address but due to lack of time stayed
with what worked.

Is it normal for BT routers to have a local address higher than the
network cards.

Geoff Lane

On Thu, 31 May 2007 18:28:58 +0100, Geoff Lane
<(E-Mail Removed)> mused:

>Briefly assisting a friend set up his new BT Fusion system the device
>appeared to have the address of 192.168.1.254 and networked computers
>were allocated addresess below this number.
>
>I initially tried to alter the address but due to lack of time stayed
>with what worked.
>
>Is it normal for BT routers to have a local address higher than the
>network cards.
>
Seems to be. No reason for them to be lower or higher though so
doesn't really matter. I tend to use blocks of 64 up and down the
range fr different things, like a block for printers, block for
servers, block for routers\access points etc...
--
Regards,
Stuart.

Lurch wrote:

>> Is it normal for BT routers to have a local address higher than the
>> network cards.
>>
> Seems to be. No reason for them to be lower or higher though so
> doesn't really matter. I tend to use blocks of 64 up and down the
> range fr different things, like a block for printers, block for
> servers, block for routers\access points etc...

Does seem strange appearing to default to a high IP address, didn't seem
to be able to alter it easily either but, as said, not too much time.

Geoff Lane