cannedtuna@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoSubnet Masklemmy.worldimagemessage-square34linkfedilinkarrow-up1410arrow-down124
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minus-squarein_my_honest_opinion@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·2 months agoThat’s way too broad, for protection it should probably be 255.255.255.254
minus-squaregiacomo@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up16·2 months ago255.255.255.252 for your significant other
minus-squaresomenonewho@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 months agoI don’t need a gateway or broadcast to talk to my SO just .0 for me and .1 for them
minus-squarekn33@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoYeah but then you don’t have ARP and you gotta set in the MAC manually and that just seems like a hassle.
minus-squarelibewa@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoI think you both have an off-by-one error there. It‘s /32 for one device and /31 for 2 devices (selected by the last bit). It feels wrong to have /32 be the entire adress space btw.
minus-squarein_my_honest_opinion@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months ago/32 is often used in static IP networks that face the public, I do it with direct point to point VPNs all the time.
That’s way too broad, for protection it should probably be 255.255.255.254
255.255.255.252 for your significant other
I don’t need a gateway or broadcast to talk to my SO just .0 for me and .1 for them
Yeah but then you don’t have ARP and you gotta set in the MAC manually and that just seems like a hassle.
I think you both have an off-by-one error there. It‘s /32 for one device and /31 for 2 devices (selected by the last bit). It feels wrong to have /32 be the entire adress space btw.
/32 is often used in static IP networks that face the public, I do it with direct point to point VPNs all the time.
at least N95!