Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E. R." Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Multi-Networking in Linux - Multiple Subnets Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2026 13:36:28 +0200 Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <114fdad$1trk7$1@news1.tnib.de> <114ff73$1ooeg$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net m90TsHX1X7/PRfOvCyyk8gAmflxLr2bUMi/bvckxDnLp48NTAU Cancel-Lock: sha1:A9lhz+7VKdjsq9QwN6zwUhZzFqk= sha256:pz9hVZ1mwlDKZBNkcJW9buvRTNyBKHcFeJCe3fmVb4k= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: <114ff73$1ooeg$1@dont-email.me> Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:89321 On 2026-07-30 14:14, Robert Heller wrote: > At Thu, 30 Jul 2026 13:58:28 +0200 "Carlos E. R." wrote: > >> >> On 2026-07-30 13:42, Marc Haber wrote: >>> "Carlos E. R." wrote: >>>> eth0: flagsA63 mtu 1500 >>>> inet 192.168.2.9 netmask 255.255.0.0 broadcast 192.168.255.255 >>> >>> Using the entire 192.168.0.0/16 range for a single home network is a >>> sure sign of a person not knowing too much about networking or an >>> incompetent ISP. >> >> The ISP configures the router so that it is mandatory to use >> 192.168.1.*, and they take a good chunk of it for their own usage. I >> have no recourse but using this non standard network. I use 192.168.2 >> for dhcp assignments. > > What is the ISP doing with *your* LAN network? The router should only be > using *one* LAN IP address (commonly 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.1.1 for typical > home routers) for the router itself. The WAN network is something else, There is a reservation of IPs for the TV, I think it is. The phone service is also on it, on 10.*.*.* -- Cheers, Carlos E.R. ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;