I asked a question about sharing a folder on two computers, and someone was kind enough to tell me the 2 ip addresses must be in the same network.
I've had a class in networking and I know about subnetting. From what I understand, "same network" means "same subnet".
What I don't understand is right now I have 2 computers.
The first one is a laptop which is assigned an ip address automatically. The second one is a desktop which also has an ip address assigned automatically.
1.How do I make the 2 ip addresses belong to the same subnet?
If I assign new ip addresses to my 2 machines by putting in ip address at TCP/IP properties, wouldn't that mess up my internet connection?
2.In order to figure out the range of each of the subnet, you need to know whether it's /24, /28, /30, etc (I don't remember exactly what this /value is called). How do you find out which /value applies to your network?
I hope my questions are not confusing.
Thank you very much
2006-12-22
16:38:38
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