On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 21:01:43 -0600, Dennis Gilmore wrote: > 1-35 for Network appliances/devices nas, san, switches, kvms, etc. > 36 - 169 for services i.e. xen guests and physical hosts when needed for > example ppc builders > 164-169 for existing boxes admin interfaces these would most likely be > needed for a short term period > 170-199 for admin interfaces drac, ALOM, etc > 200 is a nat pool ip id like to have it moved to 250 > 201 - 219 for test systems > 220-249 for physical xen hosts > 250-254 for gateways to external networks Wouldn't it be more secure to have the interfaces you put in 1-35 and 170-199 in a separate, unrouted network (10.x.x.x) that can only be accessed from a couple admin machines having dual ethernet ports ? That would also leave more room in the /24 net... It's a bit more trouble to manage two networks, but not that much. C