I used to use 1.2.3.4 as my gateway.
At the time I didn't understand why this offended ... Basically everybody.
this post was submitted on 04 Nov 2026
691 points (99.1% liked)
linuxmemes
33336 readers
281 users here now
Hint: :q!
Sister communities:
Community rules (click to expand)
1. Follow the site-wide rules
- Instance-wide TOS: https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
- Lemmy code of conduct: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/code_of_conduct.html
2. Be civil
- Understand the difference between a joke and an insult.
- Do not harrass or attack users for any reason. This includes using blanket terms, like "every user of thing".
- Don't get baited into back-and-forth insults. We are not animals.
- Leave remarks of "peasantry" to the PCMR community. If you dislike an OS/service/application, attack the thing you dislike, not the individuals who use it. Some people may not have a choice.
- Bigotry of any kind will not be tolerated. This is an LGBTQ+-friendly community -- if that is a problem for you, you should leave.
3. Post Linux-related content
- Including Unix and BSD.
- Non-Linux content is acceptable as long as it makes a reference to Linux. For example, the poorly made mockery of
sudoin Windows. - No porn, no politics, no trolling or ragebaiting.
- Don't come looking for advice, this is not the right community.
4. No recent reposts
- Everybody uses Arch btw, can't quit Vim, <loves / tolerates / hates> systemd, and wants to interject for a moment. You can stop now.
5. π¬π§ Language/ΡΠ·ΡΠΊ/Sprache
- This is primarily an English-speaking community. π¬π§π¦πΊπΊπΈ
- Comments written in other languages are allowed.
- The substance of a post should be comprehensible for people who only speak English.
- Titles and post bodies written in other languages will be allowed, but only as long as the above rule is observed.
6. (NEW!) Regarding public figures
We all have our opinions, and certain public figures can be divisive. Keep in mind that this is a community for memes and light-hearted fun, not for airing grievances or leveling accusations. - Keep discussions polite and free of disparagement.
- We are never in possession of all of the facts. Defamatory comments will not be tolerated.
- Discussions that get too heated will be locked and offending comments removed. Β
Please report posts and comments that break these rules!
Important: never execute code or follow advice that you don't understand or can't verify, especially here. The word of the day is credibility. This is a meme community -- even the most helpful comments might just be shitposts that can damage your system. Be aware, be smart, don't remove France.
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
As a Network Engineer: If you did this in my presence, I'd burn you at the goddamn stake. π
Like I said ... Basically everybody.
That's mostly because it violates established standards, but you know that already. Lol.
Also, if you're talking to a network engineer, they probably have PTSD dealing with a client that did this with a 1.0.0.0/8 used internally or some shit and now huge swathes of the internet doesn't work, but somehow it's "our fault" that they can't load random web sites.
Thatβs mostly because it violates established standards, but you know that already. Lol.
Hey, for all you know he might actually be the proper owner of that subnet.....
I know if by some crazy coincedence I had that in my subnet I'd be using it for fun.
I recently had a ticket for a university that had a /12 of public IPs. They gave every computer, printer, etc. a public IP on their whole network. Nothing has NAT. It was insane. They could buy an entire other university building with the money they'd make selling some of that address space down to even a /24.
Fwiw, I now use 10.10.220.0/24. I now know what class A, B and C are. I didn't then.
Hopefully that offers you some comfort.
Everyone knows you need to be using a network like fd25:c74c:a5e9::/64. So much more fun that way.
I'm sure this is hilarious, but I don't know enough about IPv6 to get it.
It's just a 'proper' IPv6 private address, the IPv6 equivalent of '10.'.
I say proper as a private address in ipv6 is supposed to be fd, then 40 random bits, then whatever you want. Nothing stops you from having fd::/64 as your private network though. The thinking was people who got tired of merging networks that happened to choose the same 10.x.x.x scheme and/or vpn connecting to multiple sites similarly with the same private address. So they thought it would be swell if every private network on earth would likely be unique, so they said you 'must' randomize 5 bytes of it. Then no renumbering/no conflicting vpn connections.
Haha all good homie.
I'm the cat
1 is my pc. 254 is the managed micro switch i use to isolate work stuff. Most things are neatly arranged - eg: 70 is the testbed proxmox, 79 is its idrac, 71-78 are the vms, same with 80 on my production proxmox. DHCP is zoned from 101 to 199, IoT are assigned fixed IPs in similar ranges, etc.
Modem is 11
Danny John-Jules?!
wrowling noises
Who hurt you?
No one. And even funnier? I do this shit professionally
Lol you fucking psycho. Love it.
Nah, put your gateway in a different subnet, but on the same network segment, and add a static /32 route to it on every client.
Is there a specific reason behind this? Never considered it but I could see it being useful since most specific routes win.
Mostly to make the next sysadmin (or yourself in 6 months) weep. There's nothing preventing there being multiple IP subnets on a single network segment, but you'd usually handle that with separate VLANs, or at least an interface alias, so the machine saw both subnets. About the only reason I could see for just adding a static route would be if you're in the middle of reconfiguring your network to a new subnet but you still need the hosts you haven't updated to be able to route.
The real nightmare when someone puts two ip addresses on the same host through different interfaces. Now that makes for some confusing troubleshooting and explanations in various applications.
What really gets me is in about 3/4 networks in the last couple of weeks I've been asked to help troubleshoot, the problem has been duplicate IP addresses. I don't know what is going on with people...
load more comments
(4 replies)
Subnet: 10/8
Gateway: 10.2.5.5
Thanks. I hate it.
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.
According ding the the law of minimal keystrokes, there's actually only 9 to choose from.
After applying the law of minimal motion, you're down to even fewer.
Then you go a step further to just using 127.1 (or your preferred last digit)
load more comments
(8 replies)
view more: next βΊ