I found that we are in fact billed for all traffic to hit the port. This means that if we request additional subnetworks, and traffic between them hits the port, we will be billed for it both ways. This would definitely be avoided with a router, but from what Shaun said I think our switch would send all this traffic to the port.
I suggest that we immediately request a 32 IP block and renumber our servers, before we proceed further. This would give us 29 effective IP addresses, which would be enough for all our future servers and at least one VPS box too, as well as a few additional IPs for HTTPS and such. This should not require rebooting, editing /etc/network/interfaces and running /etc/init.d/networking restart inside screen should do it. Of course we would need to update DNS and such as well. -ntk _______________________________________________ HCoop-SysAdmin mailing list [email protected] http://hcoop.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hcoop-sysadmin
