On Sat, 2009-01-10 at 12:59 +1100, Simon Slater wrote: > What then, is a sub-net? A division of one network into more than one. e.g. Such as in an office, you might carve up your LAN into upstairs and downstairs, so that everything on the same floor is common, but segregated from the other floor. It puts some separation of traffic, so that one floor doesn't use all the LAN bandwidth to the detriment of the other (assuming some common equipment between them). And it makes life easier in using the right printer, the one near you (and things like that). The subnet mask, the 255.255.255.0 thing being discussed, is the thing that tells the equipment where the boundary is (our LAN or not our LAN; or more to the point, our subnet of it, versus not). > Okay, for a small private network of up to 2 dozen boxes, is there a > standard or convention for selecting the final numbering system, eg > 192.168.0.101 to 125 vs 192.168.9.1 to 25 ? Is there a need to > distinguish between computer,printer or router in the numbering > heirarchy? Not really. Although it's common practice to make a router either an x.y.z.254 address, or x.y.z.1 address. But nothing really depends on using such a scheme, other than some old windows clients that, pretty much, demanded that the interconnect sharing computer (a computer acting as a router), was 192.168.0.1. If you're using a system which mixes a DHCP server along with statically configured computers. Find out how your DHCP server doles out its addresses (or configure it how you want it to), and then use one range of IPs just for static addresses (e.g. x.y.z.1-100), and the rest for DHCP assigned ones (x.y.z.101-200). Alternatively, the easier solution can be to have everything use DHCP to have addresses assigned, then configure the DHCP server to always assign certain equipment the same IP. One way or another, you want servers to have their IP address to always stay the same (file servers, mail servers, print servers, web servers, etc.). -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.9-73.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
