-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 27 September 2002 18:56, Mike Egglestone wrote: > 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 > > My dhcpd.conf would serve out IP's in this range: > 10.0.0.20 - 10.0.1.254 > Would this give me a Legal subnet of 512? (minus the network and broadcast > IP's of course)
Should work OK if you set the netmask to 255.255.254.0, otherwise you would only be able to use IPs 10.0.0.0 and 10.0.0.1 (which are network and broadcast respectively ;-). > I understand that I probably should throw a 3rd nic in the box and have 2 > complete subnets on my private side, but I think my Motherboard is all out > of PCI slots. Naa, not necessary. However, I really wonder which net might be big enough to need more than 254 dhcp based Ip addresses without having major performance problems. Regards, Sven M�ller - - IT - Network&Infrastructure - - -- * Heinrich Berndes Haushaltstechnik GmbH & Co KG * Wiebelsheidestrasse 55, 59757 Arnsberg, Germany * Phone: +49 2932 475-282 / FAX: -325 * http://www.berndes.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9mYHzss2fOBI6SZ0RAuymAJ4l2Nm6udhP5N6MH4ZIGfmDfXzQKwCffWBm DBnNdmD7MS5q6cAQDAvPRFk= =9iJK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
