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[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 108 points 4 months ago (4 children)

172.16.0.0/12 is a valid prefix for private networks. In fact, you get more hosts than 192.168.0.0/16, but less than 10.0.0.0/8.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserved_IP_addresses

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 77 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Yeah, it’s not that it’s not valid for private networks, it’s that 172.16.42.x is common for WiFi Pineapples

[–] magi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Every "well ackqually" person in this thread is insufferable

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

IDK, I find them quite sufferable and in fact I'm learning something from this thread.

[–] magi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 4 months ago

Can't argue with that, I guess