I thought about that, but then I also thought that opening a network that large would cause other problems.
The following is a good approximation of my network. All are located in one building with future expansion to across the parking lot in 5+ years. 175 DHCP assigned PC's 15 Static ip PC's 10 Servers with Static IP's 12 Printers with static IP's 15 Network devices (switches/AP's) with reserved addresses. 20 Static IP "Other" devices Jeff Johnson Systems Administrator 714-773-2600 Office 714-773-6351 Fax [cid:[email protected]] From: John Aldrich [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 1:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Need more IP addresses Why not just change your netmask to 255.255.0.0? That should be more IPs than you will EVER use! :) [cid:[email protected]][cid:[email protected]] From: Jeff Johnson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 3:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Need more IP addresses I am in need of more IP addresses on my network. My current network looks like this: 192.168.1.x 255.255.255.0 I am using 248 IP's currently, so I have very little expansion available. I do see the potential to increase in the following year, so I had better get my butt thinking about this soon. Plus I have Christmas and New Year's holidays that I could work with no one on our network for 3 full days. I am thinking about changing my subnet to something like 255.255.254.0 or 255.255.252.0. Would this be a good way, or would I be better adding an additional router and just creating a new 255.255.255.0 network on 192.168.2.x? I guess my question is which is the "correct" way? Jeff Johnson Systems Administrator 714-773-2600 Office 714-773-6351 Fax [cid:[email protected]] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
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