IP addresses are one thing, but wtf is a subnet mask??
Wtf is 255.255.255.255 and why does it keep showing up???
It tells you how to read the IP address. It’s a really cool trick that’s an enormous pain in the ass.
I love that people forget about 127.0.0.0/8 being the loopback network. Everyone just uses .1 when there are so many to choose from.
There’s nothing preventing the gateway from being a DHCP client, just saying…
Settle down, Satan.
oh my god
i love this idea so much. I’ve been doing networking for 13 years now and I’ve never considered a dynamically addressed gateway
Meanwhile my gateway is
fe80::17a9:3ba7:5¥4🐔:b8ä7%42Wait is there an existing unicode to ipv6 method. I assume it would just be the bit values of the emoji in utf8?
fe80::“hello 🐔” aka fe80::6865:6c6c:6f20:f09f:9094
I approve of the idea of cursed ipv6 notation.
sup
Gateway is .69
Dhcp is .70 - .254
Static routes are .68 and below
I will not be taking any questions
About twenty years ago I was hired in to straighten up a network at a investment place. They were running all static IP addresses and the guy who set it up set the gateway to 69. I laughed and started converting them to dhcp and seriously considered leaving the gateway alone.
I have to ask a question now. My question is, is that you?
It wasn’t me. Why leave room for DHCP if you’re not going to use it?
The “gateway” is 69. Noted
No no no, the period comes first, .69
Gotta get your red wings.
Gateway has multiple IP addresses, from .1 through .10 . (I used to have multiple OpenWRT servers for different things, but consolidated them all into a single rackmount server.)
ITT: What are you people even arguing about?
My home server is at 192.168.1.230 because that’s what IP was assigned to the machine at the moment I set it up.
Yep. Love that chaos, ya know?
DHCP gave me 170. I said “let’s make this static shall we?”
Lol mine is .116 for the same reason
Lol, same-ish, lazy gang ftw.
There are dozens of us
Last address? Who the heck does that???
A typical ip address scheme is to assign lower blocks to dhcp pools and reserve high ip addresses to servers and network gear. Anything over 250 is typically a switch or a router in this case.
I’ve had modems from my ISP which assigned themselves 192.168.0.254 for some reason. I have no idea why
My new fibre modem is .254. It was a bitch to get into (whatever the mode’s called that makes it a simple gateway).
Bridge mode?
It’s called
multicastedit: broadcast and it’s for spamming every device on the network /sIt’s called multicast
Don’t confuse the broadcast address with multicast!
hey, don’t you blame multicast for the sins of others! Multicast and Anycast are under witness protection!
10.10.0.254 here, because I wanted my main rig to be .1
I work for a French company that does this, I don’t know if all French companies do this, but it threw me for a loop for sure.
10.0.0.0/8 address space with a gateway address that gets randomized every 24 hours. Tomorrow’s address is advertised on a HTTP server local to the network that cannot be externally accessed. For security reasons.
That’s the kind of overengineering I was hoping for!
Nothing advertises hostnames, and the DHCP table is dumped and every client gets new address at the same time, too.
Just make sure the MAC addresses randomize, too, and then you’ve got yourself a proper fucking mess for a hacker to sort out.
the honeypot house of mirrors
Throw in some random static DHCP leases that cycle every hour and update the firewall rule alias
I use 10.13.37.42 as my gateway.
Sigh why on earth did I not do 10.13.37.0/24?? Mine is lame as hell
10.10.10.70 here. There was a reason in the distant past that I did this and now it’s stuck that way forever.
Just set the Gateway to use DHCP.
Settle down Satan
So statically assign all IPs except for your gateway?
First address? As in, the network address? Last address? As in, the broadcast address? Suspicious.
*First Usable Address. Obviously u can drop the usable part.
This guy networks
192.168.0.2 😤
Literally seen this in the real world too.
Spread them out, you want to avoid signal interference!
Bonus points for using a /16
