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IP Address
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The following addresses cannot be assigned because they
are reserved for certain purposes:
3.4
IP Address
Upon delivery the FRITZ!Box is assigned the following IP ad-
dress:
192.168.178.1
If you would like to change the IP address, please read
through the following sections. Also note the additional infor-
mation in the section
Reserved IP Addresses on page 125
.
When Does It Make Sense to Change the IP Address?
You should change the IP address of the FRITZ!Box if the fol-
lowing apply to your network:
•
You have an existing local IP network, one subnet with
several computers.
•
Fixed IP addresses are registered in the network settings
of the computer, and you do not want to or are not per-
mitted to change these addresses.
•
You want to connect the FRITZ!Box to the local IP network
in order to make the FRITZ!Box features available to all of
the computers in the IP network.
Reserved IP Addresses
The entire IP network 192.168.180.0 in the FRITZ!Box is re-
served for internal purposes.
IP addresses from this network may
not
be assigned to the
FRITZ!Box.
192.168.178.1
is used by the FRITZ!Box itself
192.168.178.255
broadcast address used to send messag-
es into the network