Oh, yeah - one more thing: I don't know if you have anyone working remotely - especially from home, but if you do, you might want to consider using a different address space.
Many, many, many consumer products use either 192.168.0.0/24 or 192.168.1.0/24 as their default networks, and people at home tend not to change them, or even know *how* to change them. If you have people working from home, and control enough of your network to do this, I'd change your internal addressing to almost any other RFC 1918 scheme. For instance, 192.168.189.0/24, or 10.0.154.0/24, or something like that. The reason is that if someone at home has 192.168.1.0/24 for their network, and you have 192.168.1.0/24 on your network, there may well be difficulties with a VPN setup. Some of this problem is mitigated by newer VPN appliances and software clients, but knowing that it can be an issue is about halfway to fixing the problem should it arise. Of course, if nobody works from home, this is not an issue at all. Kurt On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:49, Jeff Johnson <jjohn...@hydraflowusa.com> wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
