Re: dhcp server subnetting
On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 12:25:55AM +0700, Jean Christophe ANDR?? wrote:
> Mike Egglestone ?crivait :
> > Basically, is it OK networking practise to setup my eth1 as follows?:
> > Network 10.0.0.0
> > IP address 10.0.0.1
> > Netmask 255.255.254
> > broadcast 10.0.1.255
>
> You may like to know that 10.0.0.0 is a class A network, so you can legally
> use a netmask of 255.0.0.0 and a broadcast of 10.255.255.255 without any
> problem! For more information look for RFC 1918 (search Google), section 3.
It's possible to do that, sure, but if you ever try to connect your
machine to a VPN where other people are using RFC 1918 addresses then
you'll run into problems if you've been excessively greedy. It's better
practice to use a more reasonably-sized subnet.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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