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 day agoNo. 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.
victorz@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Going back a little bit, you mentioned advantages to “segregating into vlans”?
Would you like to elaborate on some of those advantages?
B0rax@feddit.org 19 hours 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
victorz@lemmy.world 18 hours 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?
B0rax@feddit.org 17 hours ago
I have a Unifi router (Unifi cloud Gateway Fiber to be precise), which one you could argue is on the higher end of consumer hardware. But there are also more consumer oriented routers with that capability.