You are right Duane, most people have their IP addresses managed by DHCP
whether it is done in their own router, or by their ISP.
That said, the DHCP server does not assign zeros by default. So, unless
someone has monkeyed about with the router (sort of unlikely except by
mistake of course) then they won't get a zero.
Finally, all of that being said, I dunno why they couldn't just make the
radio accept a zero, more or less for the heck of it. It seems a simple
change, and I don't think it would really do any harm.
Gary
----- Original Message -----
From: "Duane Calvin" <ac5aa1@gmail.com>
To: "'Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment'" <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2007 12:36 AM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Omni VII - I feel like such a n00b...
> Agreed, but the radio is most likely getting assigned an IP via DHCP in
the
> router, and most folks don't change the default settings. Then again,
maybe
> I'm way off on this - I don't have an Omni VII and don't know what is
> required for the setup other than it's expected to reside behind a router
in
> the user's environment.
>
> 73, Duane
>
> Duane Calvin, AC5AA
> Austin, Texas
> www.ac5aa.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tentec-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com]
> On Behalf Of Gary Hoffman
> Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 9:58 PM
> To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Omni VII - I feel like such a n00b...
>
> Yes, routers and similar network operations devices make use of 000 and
also
> 255 issued for certain operations (by convention, not necessity) and for
> that matter 1 and 254 are usually reserved for certain tasks as well.
>
> Since the radio is an end use device, and not a router or other network
> operations or management device, I can't see that this is much of a
> limitation, in practice.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Duane Calvin" <ac5aa1@gmail.com>
> To: "'Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment'" <tentec@contesting.com>
> Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 8:31 PM
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Omni VII - I feel like such a n00b...
>
>
> > Except most routers are set for "0" in the third octet.
> >
> > 73, Duane
> >
> > Duane Calvin, AC5AA
> > Austin, Texas
> > www.ac5aa.com
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: tentec-bounces@contesting.com
[mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com]
> > On Behalf Of Ed
> > Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 7:21 PM
> > To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
> > Subject: Re: [TenTec] Omni VII - I feel like such a n00b...
> >
> > Jeff Iddings wrote:
> > > Well, I'd surely hate for anyone to elaborate on why this might be..
is
> > > it a known bug? Is it something TenTec is going to fix?
> > >
> > > Ed wrote:
> > >
> > >> From the information in your post, I would think you answered your
own
> > >> question.
> > >>
> > >> Ed W3NR
> >
> > Why is it a bug ? The choices according to the information you supplied
> > are from 001 to 255. That sure gives you a lot of leeway to set an IP.
> >
> > Ed W3NR
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