Toby A Inkster wrote: > Steve Holden wrote: > >> There is absolutely no need to know the IP address of "your router" to >> communicate with Internet devices. Either your IP layer is configured to >> know the addresses of one or more routers, or it has discovered those >> address by dynamic means, or you can't get off-net because there aren't >> any routers. > > ... or you can't get off-net because you don't *know* the routers. > What I know or don't know makes absolutely no difference to whether my computer can reach the Internet, it's a matter of whether the IP layes is configured to know the appropriate address to which it can hand off non-local traffic.
If you are trying to say that it's necessary to know the IP address of the routers in order to select a specific interface address from the available choices as "the Internet interface" then kindly say so and stop wallowing in semantic obscurity. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC/Ltd http://www.holdenweb.com Skype: holdenweb http://del.icio.us/steve.holden Blog of Note: http://holdenweb.blogspot.com See you at PyCon? http://us.pycon.org/TX2007 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
