Re: Multi-Networking in Linux - Multiple Subnets

On Thu, 30 Jul 2026 21:53:18 +0200, Marc Haber wrote:

> rbowman <[email protected]> wrote:
>>On Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:43:11 +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>wlp2s0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
>>        inet 192.168.1.124  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast
>>        192.168.1.255
>>
>>It's the same on the machine with a wired connection.
> 
> Please get the basics of IP networking right and take a look at the
> netmask.
> 
> Greetings Marc

Networking isn't an area where I have any great deal of skills. I plug the 
stuff in and it works. I'm  not going to screw around for the sake of some 
hypothetical purity.