▶ Russian Google translate: I have a pack of 16TB disks and a scattering of 6TB disks. I have 5 Internet connection points in different parts of the world with public IPs, in some places 3-4 different providers with public IPs are connected. In each of the 5 points there is an “old” pc level i5 and…

Yes you can do that. I run 3 nodes on3 disks on one host with docker on a single IP. All nodes behind a single /24 IP share traffic.

not sure if i´m understanding this. i´m on a /20 subnet. if my ip is 180.200.200.140 and my netmask is 255.255.240.0 so, my subnet is 180.200.192.0, then i will be seen as the same node in that subnet. but you´re saying it´s as if i´m in a /24. So for StorJ my subnet will be 180.200.200.0, and…

it’s a binary mask, its just confusing to look at it in decimal numbers. Determining the network prefix[ edit ] An IPv4 subnet mask consists of 32 bits; it is a sequence of ones ( 1 ) followed by a block of zeros ( 0 ). The ones indicate bits in the address used for the network prefix and the trailin…

yes, I know… I was investigating it last night. Took me 3hours to fully understand it. The main problem been I was thinking in the hosts as the ISP side, when it relates to the user side. Your explanation is great, I wish I had seen it before :sweat_smile: so, yes my netmask been 11111111.11111111…

the /20 or /24 is kinda confusing… seems to be network administrator short form… to lazy to write 255.255.255.0 or 255.255.0.0 well it won’t be in trouble, it will just share the load with 255 other people at most… assuming they all have storagenodes, which is pretty unlikely… i suppose it’s a perf…

3 hours? That is very determined, most people never get it, even in IT unless you are a network engineer or a renaissance geek.

[image] SGC: so basically a /20 means you would have 255 x 255 type c subnets a subnet mask of 255.255.0.0 @SGC , the subnet calculator that you linked to indicates that a /20 has a subnet mask of 255.255.240.0, which was already indicated by @frances . This would allow for 16 /24 networks on …

gotcha, well he did also spend 3 hours on looking at it… i might have skimmed it a bit to quickly :smiley: no surprise there… Been decades since i’ve really had to really deal with subnet math, that also makes it a bit more reasonable a global ip range to have… i think i pay like close to 10$ for…

I am not sure what we are getting at other than an interesting if not academic exercise. Most people will have multiple nodes behind a single NATT’ed public IP (assume they are at home rather than using a data center). I use AT&T which does not subnet at /24, but Storj will assume /24 ranges - meani…

if storj gets really popular it might be nice to know where nodes are located on the subnets, so that we don’t step on each others toes… right now i doubt it’s a real consideration, but man would it suck to be say 3 people sharing a subnet on storj and then one guy is running 98 storagenodes… would…

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Alexey May 27, 2020, 11:09pm 22

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