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
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
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Chris Cappuccio wrote:
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)
Just like HP-UX 10.20 and 11.00, as shipped. :-P At least patches are available. Other than that, we had no trouble making a transition to a subnet-zero network at my day job (one or two of every major UNIX variant on the market, along with three to four years worth of back-supported versions, and the major Win32 variants). (Network gear is all Cisco, and all up-to-date enough to deal with the layout, so I can't report anything regarding unusual network infrastructure.) -- Edward S. Marshall <emarshal@logic.net> http://www.nyx.net/~emarshal/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [ Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas. ]
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