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Which private address range do you use at home?
raindog308
Administrator, Veteran
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Talked to a friend who had a network problem at home and I was amused when he said one of his devices was on a 10.x.x.x device. Seriously, dude, how big a home lab do you expect to build...
How about you?
Which private address range do you use at home?
- My home private network is addressed using...188 votes
- 10.x - I have a BIG home network17.02%
- 172.16.x - I am too cool for 192.1686.38%
- 192.168.x - but not 192.168.0 or 192.168.1 because that'd be lame45.21%
- Whatever my router DHCPs me28.19%
- What are you talking about ? I'm a fd00::/8 hipster3.19%
Comments
127.0.0.1
I don't have a big network but 10.0.0.0/8 because I can't remember but I've used this over 192.168.x.x for years.
Less than 200 devices so 192.168.1 pls
In a world of CIDR, a network does not have to be /8 large just because it begins with 10.
Started with 192.168.x at home, proliferated more random 192.168.y's with remote VPS's. But when Home morphed into Work, with the need for better internal firewalling and routing, wished I'd started with the larger, easier to divide ranges.
Still using 192.168.x though
NSA space.
Francisco
I cant vote multiple. I have both whatever the ISP router assigns (192.168.100.x) till my main router (routerboard-mikrotik) then 3 VLANs 10.0.x because that is what I have been using at my former workplace and got used to it.
While my ISP offers IPv6 I am only using on a couple of VMs which need routable IPs.
I use 10.0.x.x, not because of the size, but because I find it easier to tell non-IT people these IPs rather than trying to get them to remember 192.168.x.x
Both 192.168.x here at home .. ATT Uverse and T-Mobile 5G home internet
I have globally routed IPv6 addresses everywhere and let the routers decide if its privately routable or not
192.168.0.x lame 😢
IPv4 main range: 192.168.5.0/24
If a device needs another IPv4 range, such as for wireless experiments:
IPv4 "jail" range: 192.168.22.0/24
This network has a separate wireless SSID.
It's for certain IoT devices that won't stop sending broadcast packets.
By putting them into a separate range, their broadcast packets won't reach my phones and drain their batteries.
IPv6 range: fde0:fd0a:3557:a8c7::/64
All addresses are assigned via DHCPv6.
192.168.178.x because my router is a FRITZ!Box
10.11.12.0/24 for my main range
10.12.14.0/24 for my second VLAN (friends and family, separate SSID)
10.15.20.0/24 for the third VLAN (only local acces, for my retro PCs for instance)
Technically I also use 192.168.178.0/24, which is my ISP router (FRITZ!) that I can’t do without. But it has no role in my home network. Everything is forwarded to my own router.
172.17.16.0/20. Which really sucks when debian docker network default is 172.17.0
0/16
69.69.69.0/24
Worth it
See, i'd assume this is meme'ing....but it is Jarland...
Francisco
I hear your Macbook is the authoritative root server for the .jarland domain.
10.x is easier to remember than 172.x and 192.x, and its also look cooler
172.x for the win lol
I used to use an unused PUBLIC ip range internally - 1.1.1.x/24
This worked great until cloudflare adopted it.
The logic was
1. Easy to enter
2. Someone trying to hack internal IP would be routed by internet to public IP.
Not absolutely sure about the hacking but at least it worked....
If it works, I just left the router configuration to be as it is (Just secure some configs)
Been using 10.x.x.x but after an router upgrade, couldn't set it with the router (It was an el-cheapo ISP router)
192.168.0 or 192.168.1 or 192.168.10 but I couldn't vote for that.
192.168.0.1 because I'm lame.
Do you even need to use VLANs when you've got them on different subnets?
Edit: yeah, I can see some cases.
Closest would be A -- /20 on 10.x
I've cut it up a few times, I PXE a lot of stuff and maintenance is for the birds
a few subnets out of 192.168.x.x, since most jobs I've had use 10.x.x.x and 172.16-31.x.x is used by a few overlay networks
192.168.88.0/24 because that the default on Mikrotik
please don't DDOS this address /s
I started with this just to play around with my new router. So that was the main reason.
But it makes it a lot easier to manage and to apply additional rules. So I can route VLAN3 to VLAN1 but not to WAN, while VLAN2 is just routed to WAN. There is no internal routing on that VLAN.