Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:
I just couldn't imagine moving my home network: network, firewall, named settings - it would have taken me a week to recover and get it working again.
Changing the IP range of any given network is always fraught with little problems you didn't think of (that one cron job which pings by IP, or the dns checks in your monitoring setup that checks to see the correct IP is returned), but generally speaking, it shouldn't be something that's unthinkable. I would suggest that for academic reasons, you might want to investigate ways to make your network generally more flexible (DHCP which feeds dynamic dns, ensuring network shares, etc use names and not numbers, documentation of exceptions, etc), so that if something you couldn't easy get around necessitated you change the IP addresses and configs of every machine on your network, that it wouldn't be beyond reason.
Granted, it's just a home network, and it's unlikely you'd ever really have to renumber (possible reasons include wanting to establish a tunnel with a larger network, ala an office network, which used the same address space you use), but it's a good academic / educational persuit for a rainy day.
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