.255 is broadcast Joe Heaton ITB - Windows Server Support
From: Stefan Jafs [mailto:stefan.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 09, 2012 10:31 AM To: Heaton, Joseph@DFG; NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Expaning Subnet again Yes I have x.0 and x.256 excluded anyhow, and assume the brodcast is 192.168.3.256 not 254, right. On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Kurt Buff <kurt.b...@gmail.com<mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com>> wrote: On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 09:07, Stefan Jafs <stefan.j...@gmail.com<mailto:stefan.j...@gmail.com>> wrote: > I know we already talked about extending IP's last week, however, I'm trying > to figure out how to add additional ranges and can't seem to figure it out. > > I currently have 192.168.0.0 - 192.168.0.256 and 192.168.1.1 - 192168.1.256 > with a subnet Mask of 255.255.254.0. If I change the subnet to > 255.255.252.0, can I then simply add: > > 192.168.2.0 - 192.168.2.256 and 192.168.3.0 - 192.168.3.256? Aside from the fact that you should not use 192.168.0.0 or 192.168.1.0 [1], you will at that point have a single subnet of 192.168.0.0 to 192.168.3.255, with 192.168.0.0 being your subnet address and 192.168.3.254 being your broadcast address. Kurt [1] Too much consumer and other equipment uses those to /24 subnets as their default, and people don't tend to change them. Thus, using them is not a good idea, especially if you have people connecting via VPN to your environment. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- Stefan Jafs ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin