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Local Network IPs - 10.0.0.0/8 or 192.168.0.0/16?

Posted by Cliff on from the matters-of-personal-opinion dept.

mike9010 asks: "After reading a few articles on the net about networking, I have come up with a question. It seems that most of them say to use 192.168.0.0/16 for a local network. Why not use 10.0.0.0/8 though? It is my understanding that it can hold a lot more IP addresses, and it is also prettier." What local network range are you using for your networks?

4 of 215 comments (clear)

  1. FP... by DemoLiter2 · · Score: 0, Troll

    I use 10.0.0.x, but Windows keeps assigning IP's from 192.168 range by default.

  2. Re:I use by shfted! · · Score: 0, Troll

    For those that don't get it's, it's the Troll's home IP address (the Troll uses Cable & Wireless).

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  3. Re:What if your provider has a private network too by crapulent · · Score: 0, Troll

    Uhh, the whole point of NAT is that the numbering scheme you use inside your private network is completely shielded from other networks. If you use 10.0.0.0/8 for your own small LAN that's behind a NAT gateway it won't matter one squat what numbering scheme is used anywhere else, since the gateway -translates- between them, hence "network address translation."

  4. Re:Choose randomly by Glonoinha · · Score: 0, Troll

    Still not random enough.

    You want real honest to God random numbers, let a woman balance your checkbook.

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