Will an IP address like 10.90.1.255 (will) work and how can this be arranged?

Question

Computer networks

Faced with a situation when the host received the address 10.94.1.255 from the dhcp provider. the gateway was 10.94.1.1. However, everything worked fine. I called support, they were surprised, but they did not explain the situation. Now the question torments me: how can this work and how can it be configured?

Answer 1

Faced with a situation when the host received the address 10.94.1.255 from the dhcp provider. the gateway was 10.90.1.1. However, everything worked fine.

Why shouldn't it work properly?
On any network less than /24, the broadcast address may not be 255.
Networks greater than /24 will also have a 255 broadcast, only .255 addresses will be more than one
Play around for fun www.gestioip.net/cgi-bin/subnet_calculator.cgi

Answer 2

It will be if they have nat configured.
Although in the general case, providers usually issue a normal external IP address
10.0.0.0/8, these are gray addresses and they are not routable to the Internet

Answer 3

How unusual... But it should work... It's
just that such addresses (the same 192.168.0.1) are usually individual, and they have traffic routing restrictions... (But there are cases when the address works...)