Practical Industrial Data Networks:Design, Installation and ...

Appendix C – Practicals 371network identity and the last dotted decimal (Z) represents the unique host computeridentity for this network. (Note that W, X, Y and Z can each have values ranging from 1through 254.)Thus we could have IP addresses in the range:192.168.0.1192.168.0.2192.168.0.3192.168.0.4192.168.0.5and so on … for each host computerEnter default Subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 to signify a class ‘C’ type of a network,which permits over 2 million network identities with each network containing 254 hosts.(Refer to the Practical TCP/IP and Networking manual for other classes of networks.)Click on OK to return to the network dialog box.All other configuration information remains unchanged from the previous practical.Click on OK again to save all information and restart the computer.To verify whether all configuration information has been entered correctly, one of theutilities that is bundled with the Microsoft’s TCP/IP is WINIPCFG.exe. This can becalled-up by clicking on start, and selecting run. Then typing winipcfg in the run dialogbox and clicking on OK.The IP configuration will be displayed along with the Ethernet adapter information.Note the adapter address.(Windows NT users need to use the DOS-based IPCONFIG.exe)