[CentOS] Extending Network - OT

[Les Mikesell]

On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 15:39, Alain Reguera wrote:

> I would select:
> 1. Pay for a network engineer.
> 2. Pay for new routers and make a more complex design for departments.
> 3.
> > just specify your network to be bigger than that. For example
> > 192.168.0.0-192.168.1.255 gives you 510 hosts
> > 192.168.0.0/23
> 
> router-------PC with 2NICS--------Institute LAN
>       real IP                   192.168.0.0-192.168.1.255
>                                    192.168.0.0/23
> 
> Is supernetting available this way or can be used only between routers?

I can't think of any currently useful equipment that is still
restricted to address classes.  Just give out a netmask of
255.255.254.0.  Or 255.255.252.0 for a range up to 192.168.3.255
so you don't have to change again next week.  Note that you
probably have a DHCP server somewhere that will have to be
changed for the range of addresses and netmask along with
anything with static assignments.

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  Les Mikesell
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