Hello Placido!
In a message Placido Santiago wrote to All:
 PS> What is the best IP address to use to a machine not connected to the
 PS> NET. And also how will I assign a particular subnet mask if I will be
 PS> able to choose an IP address. What is the relationship between the
 PS> two. Thanks
The 10 series IP addresses are reserved for those applications, ie. 10.0.0.1 
and up. Since this is a class A number you would use a subnet mask of 
255.0.0.0
Subnet masking is at the heart of the IP addressing scheme. In order to 
understand it you need to learn about IP addrssing in general, the different 
classes of IP addresses and the particular way in which binary numbers are 
converted to decimals when using subnet masking to order a network.
For a private, non-connected network, non of this knowledge is really needed.
-=David=-
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