Yeah, my original post had a syntax error. Forgot the dot zero at the end. Mike
Quoting IT - Sven Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > -----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----- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/

