Restricted IP Addresses

When manually entering IP Settings, you cannot use certain ranges of IP addresses:

Setting Restricted IP addresses
IP Address 0.0.0.0

127.x.x.x

192.0.2.x

224.0.0.0 to 255.255.255.255

Subnet Mask 0.0.0.0

255.255.255.255

Gateway Address 0.0.0.0

197.x.x.x

224.0.0.0 to 255.255.255.255

DNS Server 127.x.x.x

192.0.2.x

224.0.0.0 to 255.255.255.255

WINS Server 0.0.0.0

192.0.2.x

224.0.0.0 to 255.255.255.255

If you are not setting a WINS server, use 0.0.0.0.