Is 192.168.0.0 a good network to be using ?

[craigcurtin]

Erik,

A good number of network devices out there (think home routers) default to 192.168.0.0/24 to their IP network and many people leave them at this. Not sure if this may be something to do with the problems so people experience ?

Many devices also give out the 10.0 range - whereas i have yet to come across a device in the 172.16 range as a default

I think it would be far smarter to give out one of the 172.16.x ranges as the default.


RFC1918 name    IP address range   number of addresses   largest CIDR block (subnet mask)   host id size   mask bits   classful description[Note 1]
24-bit block          10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255   16,777,216   10.0.0.0/8 (255.0.0.0)   24 bits   8 bits   single class A network
20-bit block          172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255   1,048,576   172.16.0.0/12 (255.240.0.0)   20 bits   12 bits   16 contiguous class B networks
16-bit block          192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255   65,536   192.168.0.0/16 (255.255.0.0)   16 bits   16 bits   256 contiguous class C networks

Craig

[digistump]

The Oak only uses this IP set in Access Point mode - which means it is the only thing on the network at that time. Now it is certainly possible that if a computer is connected to the net via ethernet and using the same IP block, while also connected via wifi to Oak during setup this could cause an issue, but unfortunately since that IP for the first setup is on the firmware that was written to the Oak at the factory we cannot change it for the first, and most troublesome update, at this point.

Probably worth highlighting this issue in the troubleshooting though - thanks - I'll add something about it.