[plug] IP Addressing

[Daniel Pearson]

Great, thanks :)
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Ian Kent wrote:
> 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
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