Re: dhcp server subnetting

2002-09-27 Thread Jean Christophe ANDRÉ
Colin Watson écrivait : > 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. You are

RE: dhcp server subnetting

2002-09-27 Thread Boyan Krosnov
> 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 Nope, 10.0.0.0 is not a class A network anymore! 10.0.0.0 is just a single address out of for example 8.0.0.0/6. CIDR has been around since

Re: dhcp server subnetting

2002-09-27 Thread Colin Watson
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 tha

Re: dhcp server subnetting

2002-09-27 Thread Jean Christophe ANDRÉ
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.