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

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

#3
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)

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

#4
post #3

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)

Oh, and it makes it easy to remember the subnet

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

#5
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)