[PLUG] Gateway address in Class C subnet

[chris (fool) mccraw]

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 17:05, Carlos Konstanski
<ckonstanski at pippiandcarlos.com> wrote:
> Is it strictly necessary for the gateway of a class C subnet to have
> an address ending in .1, like 192.168.16.1?  I am about to install a
> router into an existing firewall-less network, and the guy who
> "administers" this network is telling me to assign the address
> 192.168.16.5 to the new router.  I want to tell him he is full of it,
> but I want to double-check my facts first, just in case he is a genius
> (he's either that, or something else).

nope, you can have any gateway you like.  the .1 is merely convention.
 i've worked in an organization with 100k hosts whose local standard
was .250.