That’s the kind of overengineering I was hoping for!

Nothing advertises hostnames, and the DHCP table is dumped and every client gets new address at the same time, too.

Just make sure the MAC addresses randomize, too, and then you've got yourself a proper fucking mess for a hacker to sort out.

I use 10.13.37.42 as my gateway.

The "gateway" is 69. Noted

About twenty years ago I was hired in to straighten up a network at a investment place. They were running all static IP addresses and the guy who set it up set the gateway to 69. I laughed and started converting them to dhcp and seriously considered leaving the gateway alone.

I have to ask a question now. My question is, is that you?

Gateway has multiple IP addresses, from .1 through .10 . (I used to have multiple OpenWRT servers for different things, but consolidated them all into a single rackmount server.)

I've had modems from my ISP which assigned themselves 192.168.0.254 for some reason. I have no idea why

10.10.0.254 here, because I wanted my main rig to be .1

I work for a French company that does this, I don't know if all French companies do this, but it threw me for a loop for sure.

There are reasons to put it at the end. For example, 192.168.1.254/24 can be expanded to /23 and have the same gateway address while you migrate clients that are statically assigned or while waiting on DHCP leases to expire, since /23 is a supernet of /24.

A typical ip address scheme is to assign lower blocks to dhcp pools and reserve high ip addresses to servers and network gear. Anything over 250 is typically a switch or a router in this case.

oh my god

i love this idea so much. I've been doing networking for 13 years now and I've never considered a dynamically addressed gateway

Settle down, Satan.

your home router is a DHCP client of your ISP's DHCP server, so...yea.

As a Network Engineer: If you did this in my presence, I'd burn you at the goddamn stake. 😂

Wait is there an existing unicode to ipv6 method. I assume it would just be the bit values of the emoji in utf8?

fe80::"hello 🐔" aka fe80::6865:6c6c:6f20:f09f:9094

I approve of the idea of cursed ipv6 notation.

sup

Settle down Satan

So statically assign all IPs except for your gateway?

People also commonly do not know that the reserved for intranet ip address range of 192.168.0.0 is actually /16 so you can pick any number between 0 and 255 for that 3rd byte and have their whole network in a range other that 192.168.0.0/8 like pretty much everybody else.

According ding the the law of minimal keystrokes, there's actually only 9 to choose from.

After applying the law of minimal motion, you're down to even fewer.

Then you go a step further to just using 127.1 (or your preferred last digit)

DHCP gave me 170. I said "let's make this static shall we?"

Lol mine is .116 for the same reason

Lol, same-ish, lazy gang ftw.

Back before i knew anything about networking and set my desktops with statics, i had .1-9 as user devices, .10-19 as servers, .20-29 as printers, .50-59 as networking devices. So my current server is .14 and has been that since uni, DNS is .50, gateway is .51. Now my dhcp pool starts at 100.

Thanks. I hate it.

Is there a specific reason behind this? Never considered it but I could see it being useful since most specific routes win.

That won't work, unless I'm misunderstanding you. You'd still need a gateway within your subnet to handle inter-subnet routing or an additional address on the gateway network.