+10,000 On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote:
> Oh, yeah - one more thing: > > I don't know if you have anyone working remotely - especially from > home, but if you do, you might want to consider using a different > address space. > > Many, many, many consumer products use either 192.168.0.0/24 or > 192.168.1.0/24 as their default networks, and people at home tend not > to change them, or even know *how* to change them. > > If you have people working from home, and control enough of your > network to do this, I'd change your internal addressing to almost any > other RFC 1918 scheme. > > For instance, 192.168.189.0/24, or 10.0.154.0/24, or something like that. > > The reason is that if someone at home has 192.168.1.0/24 for their > network, and you have 192.168.1.0/24 on your network, there may well > be difficulties with a VPN setup. > > Some of this problem is mitigated by newer VPN appliances and software > clients, but knowing that it can be an issue is about halfway to > fixing the problem should it arise. > > Of course, if nobody works from home, this is not an issue at all. > > Kurt > > On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:49, Jeff Johnson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > I am in need of more IP addresses on my network. > > > > > > > > My current network looks like this: > > > > 192.168.1.x > > > > 255.255.255.0 > > > > > > > > I am using 248 IP’s currently, so I have very little expansion > available. I do see the potential to increase in the following year, so I > had better get my butt thinking about this soon. Plus I have Christmas and > New Year’s holidays that I could work with no one on our network for 3 full > days. > > > > > > > > I am thinking about changing my subnet to something like 255.255.254.0 or > 255.255.252.0. Would this be a good way, or would I be better adding an > additional router and just creating a new 255.255.255.0 network on > 192.168.2.x? > > > > > > > > I guess my question is which is the “correct” way? > > > > > > > > Jeff Johnson > > > > Systems Administrator > > > > 714-773-2600 Office > > > > 714-773-6351 Fax > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
