On Mon, 14 Jan 2013, Tony Langdon <[email protected]> wrote: > How many home users actually do this? Good practice or not, I'd > say very few (this list would be an unrepresentative sample, skewing > estimates very much higher than reality). Segmented networks can be > a pain for non technical users with today's plug and play (pray?) > devices which expect to find each other on the same LAN segment.
You can use a smart switch or a Linux box running bridging to enforce any form of firewall controls on different parts of the same subnet. So why is there a need for different subnets? It's a poor design to have the minimum subnet be 2^64 addresses though. 2^48 addresses for all Ethernet devices in the world hasn't turned out to be any sort of problem and it's only recently that 2^32 IP addresses for the entire world became a problem (and things still work reasonably well even though almost no-one is IPv6 only). -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
