Can a IP reader tell me where is this train going to? I don’t know how to speak comput0r

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  1. This train is about to embark on a beautiful voyage of vírus town, phishing lake, Trojan horse monument, scam market and my personal favourite Nigeria prince castle. Good luck and make sure to keep the SBB tracking on, so we can follow you along the way

  2. At first glance, all we know for sure is that at one point this train is the 21st train in some network or that this is the 21st display or device inside this train.

    My gf once asked what IP address are and for local IPs, I like to use the analogy of a members only bar.

    Your router at home is the bouncer of a club (your WiFi). They’re given instructions by the manager (you, the admin) to only let in people who know the password. When someone comes to the club and give the right password, they let them into the club and tell them to go to table 0 and receive the number 2 as their ID number (the bouncer/router is 1). They also log this table number and ID number into their secret guest list.

    This new guest keeps this if forever, even if they leave the club (your phone for example, when you take it with you outside the house) unless the manager (you, the admin) tell the bouncer to drop that number from the list. If an if number is dropped than the next guest to join the club gets that number.

    Hence the IP address for this bar would be:
    192.168.0.1 – the bouncer/router
    192.168.0.2 – the first member of the bar/wifi

    Applying this analogy to the train,we can only assume that at one point are at a minimum 21 devices on this network. What we don’t know if this is the IP address for the whole train or for devices inside the train.

    Trains have displays, lights, doors, speakers, etc. and all of them could have ip addresses.

    Edit: typos

  3. That’s just a part of the normal startup sequence of a train. Every wagon has it’s own IP.

    Source: I know people that work at the SBB IT department.

  4. I’m honestly very curious what happens if you log into the trains wifi and go to that address (it’s most likely the internal IP of the marquee system)

  5. Big misconception. You are in wagon 22 (damn long!), the locomotive is at 192.168.0.1 – just hit your browser and enter the default password for user ‘admin’ with password ‘sbb’. But remember with great power comes great responsibility!

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