[plug] IP Addressing

[Ian Kent]

On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 19:02 +0800, Timothy White wrote:
> On 6/18/06, Daniel Pearson (Flashware Solutions) <daniel at flashware.net> wrote:
> >
> >  If I have machines on 10.1.1.XXX - then should I should set the subnet mask
> > to a /24 i.e. 255.255.255.0 - as there will be no other LAN subnets it will
> > need to be routed through to?
> 
> Yes. This lets them talk to ALL computers on the 10.1.1. subnet. You
> /can/ set the subnet smaller if you don't need 255 address, but
> 255.255.255.0 is fine.

But using subnets on 8 bit boundaries is much easier than having
fiddling with the subnet mask.

Use the above 24 bit mask.

Ian