Yeah. Here’s a breakdown of the allocations and their sizes:
192.168.0.0/16 - 65,536 addresses
172.16.0.0/12 - 1,048,576 addresses
10.0.0.0/8 - 16,777,216 addresses
Most home applications only need a single /24 (256 addresses) so they are perfectly fine with 192.168.0.0/24, but as you get larger businesses, you don’t use every single address but instead break it out by function so it’s easier to know what is what and to provide growth in each area.
But tbh, I still don’t see why you can’t just use 10.x but only as many subnets as you need.
I know jack shit about networking, but I’ve set up OpenWrt routers a couple of times, and set my home network to 10.99. because that was suggested by a ZeroTier tutorial and I thought that’s cool.
Yeah. Here’s a breakdown of the allocations and their sizes:
Most home applications only need a single /24 (256 addresses) so they are perfectly fine with 192.168.0.0/24, but as you get larger businesses, you don’t use every single address but instead break it out by function so it’s easier to know what is what and to provide growth in each area.
But tbh, I still don’t see why you can’t just use 10.x but only as many subnets as you need.
I know jack shit about networking, but I’ve set up OpenWrt routers a couple of times, and set my home network to 10.99. because that was suggested by a ZeroTier tutorial and I thought that’s cool.
You’re technically correct, you can use any of them. It’s honestly just a matter of preference.