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Is there a technical advantage to using a 192 network vs a 10 network like you described? I would’ve thought there just addresses, still IPv4 as well.

I tend to use hostnames where possible. Maybe that’s not viable for your situation?

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B0rax@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
No. But segregation into vlans has advantages. As this comes with new adresses anyway, might as well tidy up the adress space entirely.

In the end 10.20.20.10 feels much neater than 192.168.174.10.

But yes, you are right, technically the 192.168.xx.yy adress space works the same and has plenty of space for home use.

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- victorz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  At okay, it’s kinda just for aesthetical reasons mostly? I’ll take that explanation home any day 😄
  
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  - B0rax@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Exactly.
    
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    victorz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    😁 “Maaaybe”
    
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- victorz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Going back a little bit, you mentioned advantages to “segregating into vlans”?
  
  Would you like to elaborate on some of those advantages?
  
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  - B0rax@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I am certainly not an expert by any stretch. But here are my reasons: Ability to isolate some “sketchy” IOT devices into an IOT only vlan, where they are not allowed to access the rest of the network, only the internet and incoming traffic from the other vlans. Having a “clean” vlan/subnet for servers and services where I can give out static IPs without worrying about collisions with client devices
    
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    victorz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Ah, nice. Very cool, very reasonable.
    
    And you can do this all with a consumer grade router maybe? Or do you need to have like a small PC-like device running special software that acts like a router, that handles this?
    
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