On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 12:56, Mike Egglestone wrote: > Hi, > I have debian woody acting as a simple firewall/ipmasq box. > eth0 public IP > eth1 private IP. > > I'm serving out IP's on eth1 but would like to go beyond 256 nodes. > Currently, this is the setup for eth1: > > Network 10.0.0.0 > IP address 10.0.0.1 > Netmask 255.255.255.0 > broadcast 10.0.0.255 > > My dhcpd.conf serves out IP's in this range: > 10.0.0.20 - 10.0.0.254 > (2-19 are reserved for other servers, printers etc) > > Basically, is it OK networking practise to setup my eth1 as follows?: For me it is OK, I am not very good in ethics and politics about subnets;) > > Network 10.0.0.0 > IP address 10.0.0.1 > Netmask 255.255.254 > broadcast 10.0.1.255 > > My dhcpd.conf would serve out IP's in this range: > 10.0.0.20 - 10.0.1.254 > > Would this give me a Legal subnet of 512? (minus the network and broadcast > IP's > of course)
But of course ! > I understand that I probably should throw a 3rd nic in the box and have 2 > complete subnets on my private side, but I think my Motherboard is all out of > PCI slots. > > Any advice or help is greatly appreciated. :) No advice, this should work properly ! Have a nice day! Dominique Fortier > > Cheers, > Mike > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------- > This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
