Hi, I agrre that it shoul be possible to choose between
-standard 10.0.0.0/8 for large centralized school management -10.x.x.0/23 (or 24 and 23 and 22) single school -192.168.x.x/24 for small schools and even offices And this choice should be an option in the expert install. Cheers Giorgio On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:11:54AM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > On Dienstag, 24. Januar 2012, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > I've discovered a problem with our new backbone network setup. Trying > > to configure a Linksys Wireless-G broadband router to use 10.0.0.8/8 > > is impossible. Its default firmware can not handle less than /24. It > > provide /24, /25, /27, etc. but not /8. I suspect this is the case > > with other consumer broadband routers too. > > > > Should we care? This make it harder to test the full Skolelinux setup > > with common hardware. :( > > eek. Yes, we must care. These home routers are used in many schools (on a > global scale). What that means, is the next question. > > (I've asked around and heard several reports of home routers either only > supporting /24 or only some netmasks or sometimes even only supporting > 192.168.x.y...) > > So, I think we should: > > - switch to 192.168.x.y and /24 even if that means this default only supports > 253 machines on the network. Thats quite plenty for many schools. > > - document how to switch the subnet and make this easy by providing a working > subnet-change tool > > I'm just not sure whether to do this now or for wheezy. Opinions? > > > cheers, > Holger > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > > -- Sysadmin SPSE-Tenero Ufficio: +41 91 735 62 48 Cellulare: +41 79 629 20 63 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
