Cannot add address 192.168.1.0: it is the address of the network.

JIKOmetrix

• July 14, 2022 16:40

I have an IP block of 192.168.1.0/26 on a server. I will be moving these IP to a new server soon. When adding IP addresses to the new server, I get the following error. Cannot add address 192.168.1.0: it is the address of the network. Recall this being an issue when the IP block was first configured on on the old server. I cannot figure out how we were able to get 192.168.1.0 as an IP on the new server. I have changed the idenity of the IP addresses to protect their privacy.

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  JIKOmetrix

  • July 14, 2022 22:09

  If I edit file: /etc/ips by adding the following line, would that make it available as a configurable IP? 192.168.1.0:255.255.255.0:192.168.1.255

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  JIKOmetrix

  • July 14, 2022 22:29

  I was able to edit the /etc/ips file and added 192.168.1.0:255.255.255.0:192.168.1.255 to the end of the file. I then rebooted and they are now available as IP alias.

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • July 15, 2022 12:54

  Hey there! I'm glad you were able to find a workaround, but I believe that's the intended behavior. IPs ending in .0 or .255 aren't something that normally can be added for use on the internet. There's some good discussion on this here:

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  JIKOmetrix

  • July 15, 2022 16:04

  Thanks

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  JIKOmetrix

  • July 17, 2022 13:13

  How do I mark this as solved?

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • July 18, 2022 13:11

  There isn't a way for users to mark a thread as solved, but I'll do that for you now!

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