Re: Multi-Networking in Linux - Multiple Subnets

"Carlos E. R." <[email protected]> wrote:
>On 2026-07-30 13:42, Marc Haber wrote:
>> "Carlos E. R." <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  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.

With a /16 Netmask, covering the entire 192.168 RFC 1918 range, as if
we have plenty of IPv4 addresses?

Please, let me see that ISPs customer documentation. They do have it
online, don't they? I'm familiar with that industry for nearly 30
years and have never seen a setup like that. It sounds so brain-dead
that my first idea was that you haven't understood.

Greetings
Marc
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