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 [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
