No. IPs are just numbers. Who cares what segment you use. The only reason you wouldn't want to use the first or last part of a subnet is if you have machines running very, very old software (like a Cisco router that won't do ip subnet-zero) On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Michael Long wrote: | | | I've been having a friendly arguement with some friends at work about | wheather it's right or wrong to use 10.255.255.0/24 for a network. | Technically it should work, but during our conversations we keep coming | back to best practiced IP schemes. I'm wondering what others think about | this. Is using 10.255.255.0/24 and possibly the reverse 10.0.0.0/24 bad | practice? | | Mike | | | | | --- Rev. Chris Cappuccio -=- http://www.dqc.org/~chris/ "If you don't turn on to politics, politics will turn on you" - Ralph Nader