Ip address

[Steve Holden]

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
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