What is your preffered IP subnet for your home lan, and why?

Posted by AdamKlob on Tuesday September 29, 2015 @03:29AM
from the self-post dept.

I use 192.168.0.x, just bacause ;) Recently I had some problems with that (IP conflict between some dumb devices), so I'm asking if there are better options.

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Re:What is your preffered IP subnet for your home lan, and why? by svennek on Tuesday September 29, 2015 @04:06AM (#10295101)

Usually, 192.168.y.x/24 where y is the birthyear of the oldest person living there at the time of the install (so no renumbering)...

I.e. my network is 192.168.79.0/24, my parents is 192.168.48.0/24, my brothers is 192.168.82.0/24...

That lowers the risk of ip-net-conflicts between family members (that sometimes want a vpn between them)

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Re:What is your preffered IP subnet for your home lan, and why? by svennek on Tuesday September 29, 2015 @04:07AM (#10295106)

Oh, and it makes it easy to remember the subnet

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Re:What is your preffered IP subnet for your home lan, and why? by fulafel on Tuesday September 29, 2015 @04:33AM (#10295171)

The globally addressable addresses that my ISP doles out. Because NAT breaks so many things and firewalling is much better done on the endpoints. (And I'm not going to put crappy consumer electronics on my network since they would be big liabilities behind NAT as well)

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Re:What is your preffered IP subnet for your home lan, and why? by vatourni on Tuesday September 29, 2015 @03:32AM (#10295018)

I use 192.168.0.x for things like router, etc ... and 192.168.1.x for my computers, phone it's easier this way to remember what is what

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