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Re: Accessing a host with variable IP addresses / connection types

From Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Accessing a host with variable IP addresses / connection types
Date 2019-04-17 18:00 +0200
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On Wed, 17 Apr 2019 14:59:53 +0100
Joe <joe@jretrading.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 17 Apr 2019 08:15:09 -0400
> Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> > Currently, my LAN is 192.168.0.0/24, which is also the addressing
> > scheme of some of the networks out of my control that I'm setting up a
> > VPN link from. I deliberately used 10.0.0.0/24 for the VPN to avoid
> > address collisions with these other networks. It did occur to me to
> > consider using a different address space, for the VPN or perhaps for
> > the whole home LAN, but I'd rather not take that step just to solve
> > what seems a relatively simple problem unless absolutely necessary
> > 
> 
> If you do get pushed to doing that, there are a few commonly used
> networks that you should avoid. 10. is often used with a netmask of
> /24 or /8, and the latter precludes all 10. variants. Of the 192.168.
> groups, 0, 1, 8, 16 and 254 are often used, best use something quite
> random like 192.168.137.0/24.
> 
> Probably better still is one of the 172.16-172.31 groups, which don't
> seem to be used as defaults very often.

Thanks. When I first set up the VPN, I did some reading about this, and
I was rather shocked to see that there was no definitive solution to
avoid address collisions, just recommendations like yours to try to
make a good guess about it ...

Celejar

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Accessing a host with variable IP addresses / connection types Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2019-04-16 17:10 +0200
  Re: Accessing a host with variable IP addresses / connection types Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-04-16 20:50 +0200
    Re: Accessing a host with variable IP addresses / connection types Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2019-04-16 21:30 +0200
  Re: Accessing a host with variable IP addresses / connection types Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2019-04-17 03:50 +0200
    Re: Accessing a host with variable IP addresses / connection types Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2019-04-17 04:20 +0200
  Re: Accessing a host with variable IP addresses / connection types Kevin DAGNEAUX <kevin.dagneaux@fiitelcom.fr> - 2019-04-17 08:40 +0200
    Re: Accessing a host with variable IP addresses / connection types Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2019-04-17 14:20 +0200
      Re: Accessing a host with variable IP addresses / connection types Kevin DAGNEAUX <kevin.dagneaux@fiitelcom.fr> - 2019-04-17 15:40 +0200
        Re: Accessing a host with variable IP addresses / connection types Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2019-04-17 18:00 +0200
      Re: Accessing a host with variable IP addresses / connection types Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2019-04-17 16:10 +0200
        Re: Accessing a host with variable IP addresses / connection types Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2019-04-17 18:00 +0200
          Re: Accessing a host with variable IP addresses / connection types Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2019-04-17 18:20 +0200
            Re: Accessing a host with variable IP addresses / connection types Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2019-04-17 18:40 +0200
              Re: Accessing a host with variable IP addresses / connection types Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2019-04-17 18:50 +0200
                [OT] IP address collisions (was: Accessing a host with variable IP  addresses / connection types) Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-04-17 21:40 +0200
                Re: [OT] IP address collisions (was: Accessing a host with variable  IP addresses / connection types) Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-04-17 22:10 +0200
                Re: [OT] IP address collisions (was: Accessing a host with variable  IP addresses / connection types) Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2019-04-18 15:00 +0200
                Re: [OT] IP address collisions (was: Accessing a host with variable  IP addresses / connection types) Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2019-04-18 15:20 +0200
                Re: [OT] IP address collisions (was: Accessing a host with variable  IP addresses / connection types) Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2019-04-18 15:30 +0200
                Re: [OT] IP address collisions (was: Accessing a host with variable  IP addresses / connection types) Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2019-04-18 22:40 +0200
                Re: [OT] IP address collisions (was: Accessing a host with variable   IP addresses / connection types) Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2019-04-18 17:10 +0200
                Re: [OT] IP address collisions Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2019-04-19 03:40 +0200
                Re: [OT] IP address collisions (was: Accessing a host with variable  IP addresses / connection types) Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2019-04-18 15:00 +0200
                Re: [OT] IP address collisions Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-04-18 20:50 +0200
                Re: Accessing a host with variable IP addresses / connection types Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2019-04-18 00:20 +0200
                Re: Accessing a host with variable IP addresses / connection types Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2019-04-18 00:50 +0200
                Re: Accessing a host with variable IP addresses / connection types Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2019-04-18 02:50 +0200
                Re: Accessing a host with variable IP addresses / connection types Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2019-04-18 15:00 +0200
                Re: Accessing a host with variable IP addresses / connection types Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2019-04-18 16:10 +0200
                Re: Accessing a host with variable IP addresses / connection types Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2019-04-18 16:20 +0200
                Re: Accessing a host with variable IP addresses / connection types Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2019-04-18 16:50 +0200
                Re: Accessing a host with variable IP addresses / connection types Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2019-05-03 23:00 +0200
                Re: Accessing a host with variable IP addresses / connection types Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2019-04-18 16:50 +0200
      Re: Accessing a host with variable IP addresses / connection types Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2019-04-17 19:00 +0200
        Re: Accessing a host with variable IP addresses / connection types Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2019-04-17 19:40 +0200
          Re: Accessing a host with variable IP addresses / connection types Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2019-04-20 20:30 +0200
            Re: Accessing a host with variable IP addresses / connection types Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2019-04-25 20:20 +0200

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