Allocating IPs in a Specific Range
The default configurations for both Weave Net and Docker use Private Networks, whose addresses are never found on the public Internet, and subsequently reduces the chance of IP overlap. However, it could be that you or your hosting provider are using some of these private addresses in the same range, which will cause a clash.
If after weave launch, the following error message
appears:
Network 10.32.0.0/12 overlaps with existing route 10.0.0.0/8 on host.
ERROR: Default --ipalloc-range 10.32.0.0/12 overlaps with existing route on host.
You must pick another range and set it on all hosts.
As the message indicates, the default range that Weave Net would like to use is
10.32.0.0/12 - a 12-bit prefix, where all addresses start with the bit
pattern 000010100010, or in decimal everything from 10.32.0.0 through
10.47.255.255.
However, your host is using a route for 10.0.0.0/8,
which overlaps, since the first 8 bits are the same. In this case, if you used the default network
for an address like 10.32.5.6 the kernel would never be sure if this meant the
Weave Net network of 10.32.0.0/12 or the hosting network of
10.0.0.0/8.
If you are sure the addresses you want are not in use, then
explicitly setting the range with --ipalloc-range in the
command-line arguments to weave launch on all hosts forces Weave
Net to use that range, even though it overlaps. Otherwise, you can
pick a different range, preferably another subset of the Private
Networks. For example
172.30.0.0/16.
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