Actually same idea came to my mind . But i abandoned it as it populates 
with a lot of subnets and makes managing them a mess. Instead of avoiding 
mistakes one may create mistake due to too many subnets generated (one per 
ip per device) son 20 devices allready 20 subnets. 

And yes it cannot create /32 network . might be a bug but in my opinion 
doenst matter as that is not the intended functionality.

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On Thursday, March 14, 2024 at 1:01:50 PM UTC+2 f.capoano wrote:

You can try instructing the rule to create very small subnets (eg: /32 or 
/31) and get 1 IP.
I remember there was an issue with subnets sized /32 which would not allow 
to get 1 IP but I don't remember if this bug is still there.
Let me know if you try and if the bug is still there we should open an 
issue and fix it.

Federico


On Wed, 13 Mar 2024 at 15:08, Radu Rambet <radu....@gmail.com> wrote:



On Tuesday, March 12, 2024 at 3:29:48 PM UTC+2 f.capoano wrote:

The help text tries to explain this:

"indicates how many addresses will be created for each subnet."

So if you have 2 subnets,  you will get 1 ip for each subnet, so you get a 
total of 2 IP addresses reserved for each device.


Yes but that creates 2 new subnets for each device and reserves one ip from 
each subnet.
it should be an option to create one subnet for instance 10.10.1.0/24 with 
one IP from the same range to each device 
Eg: xx_subnet1_ip1 should be 10.10.1.1 for device 1 and 10.10.1.2 for 
device 2 . in this way one can deploy more devices in the same L2/L3 
network . 

This is exactly waht VPN rule does but only with VPN server. 

I was sure that such functionality exists as it is very useful deploying 
large networks. 

There are more complcated situations where one would have an DHCP server 
per each device where for example 3rd octet would identify the device in 
range and 4th would be used for individual device assignemnt over wifi. But 
that is just a naming convention.

Unfortunately as is I have to asign manually ip's for each device that is 
not a drama but in order to avoid mistakes automation would help.

Anyhow existing VPN automation is just awsome and saves immense amount of 
work.
 

We currently have 2 built-in subnet division rules:

1. device: the rule is triggered each time a device is created
2. vpn: the rule is triggered each time a device gets a particular 
VPN-client template assigned

I hope this helps.
Federico

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