Was wondering why I'd get a very different IP address range if I change the number of hosts on my node's LAN from say 5 to 13.
When it was set to 5 it gave me a range of IP addresses 10.113.10.xxx, and I needed more hosts so I changed it to 13 hosts, and it
gave me a very different IP range, 10.226.21.xxx. I would have thought I'd just get a few more IP addresses added to the ones I had before, when I had selected 5 hosts. Not a big deal, but was wondering why.
When it was set to 5 it gave me a range of IP addresses 10.113.10.xxx, and I needed more hosts so I changed it to 13 hosts, and it
gave me a very different IP range, 10.226.21.xxx. I would have thought I'd just get a few more IP addresses added to the ones I had before, when I had selected 5 hosts. Not a big deal, but was wondering why.
http://bloodhound.aredn.org/products/AREDN/wiki/TechRef/GUI/admin/PerlUI...
Joe AE6XE
If you have two devices with sequential MAC addresses (very possible if thy come in the same order) if you reserve X addresses then the next mesh node expects to be able to use the next range up (e.g. It starts giving out addresses st X+1) if we arbitrarily allowed a node to allocate addresses there would be a higher collision probability while if we use a separate modification for nodes in the 1/5/15 ranges each node can calculate where it should be without two sequentially manufactured devices colliding with each other.