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?

Although this should work, I would recommend that before someone use either of these addresses (and in particular 10.0.0.0/24) please consider how many other networks with that address exist. Without getting into the whole renumbering argument again on nanog (#include <flame.h>), if you are able to choose a portion of 10/8 space with some amount of randomness you can reduce the potential for conflicts in those cases where two private networks need to merge. -- Eliot Lear lear@cisco.com