On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 5:17 PM, David Boyes <dbo...@sinenomine.net> wrote:
> Don't do this. It will cause all sorts of random problems that you'll deeply > regret later. Tee hee hee. The "random" problems are expected when your company gets bought by IBM or when you outsource your business to IBM since duplicate IP addresses would occur. That's one of the reasons IBM is using official 9. IP addresses even internally for systems that don't connect straight to the Internet: just to avoid collisions when networks get merged in the future. The "non-routable" subnets are meant for this. They are not routed over the big switches and thus remain internal. Your only possible risk is that someone else had the same idea, so things break when networks are merged (even only logically). My home network is 192.168.1.0/24 and when I run a VPN bridge into that it may break when the hotel picked the same subnet for their service. Rob
