Re: dhcp server subnetting

[Jean Christophe ANDRÃ? <jean-christophe.andre@auf.org>]

	Hi,

Mike Egglestone écrivait :
> 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.

>From this, you'll be able to use a DHCP address range from 10.0.0.20 to
10.0.1.254 as well as from 10.100.0.0 to 10.100.255.255, assuming that your
DHCP service is able to handle 65536 addresses! ;-)

Regards, J.C.