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help a newbie with IP address question

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Name: sssolidnesss
Date: August 20, 2002 at 11:47:51 Pacific
Subject: help a newbie with IP address question

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I am running a network of about 40 win2k stations and 3 win2k servers. My Ip adress
starts from 192.168.0.1 to 192.168.0.44, subnet 255,255,255,0.
I have heard that i can/should run my workstations on 192.168.0.1 to 192.168.0.40
and my servers at 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.0.3.
Is this true? what happens to my subnet if yes? should my servers and workstations
be on the same level IP address?
Please help a newbie out, thanks.

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Response Number 1

Name: mike
Date: August 20, 2002 at 12:03:02 Pacific
Subject: help a newbie with IP address question

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was thre a reason given other than security/nw scanner tools?

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Response Number 2

Name: sssolidnesss
Date: August 20, 2002 at 12:20:09 Pacific
Subject: help a newbie with IP address question

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No reason was given, but i assume security, or maybee to manage traffic better. not too sure.

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Response Number 3

Name: Brian
Date: August 20, 2002 at 12:32:13 Pacific
Subject: help a newbie with IP address question

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You can use any of those IP address on your network, it all comes down to preference .
Example 192.168.0.X 255.255.255.0
I make all my router eth0 interfaces the first host of the subnet (192.168.0.1) and some use the last host of the subnet (192.168.0.254) It does not matter, you can make it 192.168.0.67 if you wanted to.
the rule of thum, but you can do whatever
you want to is
192.168.0.1 (router)
192.168.0.10-20 (servers)
192.168.0.40-150 (computers)
192.168.0.30-39 (maybe printers)
you get the Idea...
Someone else might do something diff.. then me.
have heard that i can/should run my workstations on 192.168.0.1 to 192.168.0.40
and my servers at 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.0.3.
I thinking you made a typo here 192.168.1.1 and you meant to use 192.168.0.1??????

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Response Number 4

Name: sssolidnesss
Date: August 20, 2002 at 13:45:57 Pacific
Subject: help a newbie with IP address question

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no typo, i was told something like i should run servers at 192.168.0.1.1-192.168.1.3 and workstations at 192.168.0.1-192.168.0.40 or wiseversal. And change my subnet to i think 255.255.0.0 . Does that ring a bell in any way?

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Response Number 5

Name: Curt R
Date: August 20, 2002 at 22:11:19 Pacific
Subject: help a newbie with IP address question

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Brian has the right of it and I tend to use a similar addressing scheme as he does. Since you have an existing setup there's no point in changing anything except to maybe put all the servers in the same 10 IP address range (90 - 100 or 150 -160...or something like that since you've already used 1 through 44). With such a small LAN, subnetting like someone told you to do makes no sense at all and at this point just means extra work...as the saying goes...if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

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Response Number 6

Name: sssolidnesss
Date: August 21, 2002 at 05:56:53 Pacific
Subject: help a newbie with IP address question

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I think what i will do is start my servers from 192.168.0.254 and count down, and keep my workstations the way they are ie. 192.168.0.1-192.168.0.40.
Does everyone agree?

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Response Number 7

Name: sssolidnesss
Date: August 21, 2002 at 07:34:14 Pacific
Subject: help a newbie with IP address question

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Here i have done the following, what do you think?
192.168.0.254 PDC
192.168.0.253 File server
192.168.0.252 backup file server
192.168.0.1-10 print servers
192.168.0.11-51 workstations
I think this should be o.k. for now till i run out of ip addresses. right?

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Response Number 8

Name: Brian
Date: August 21, 2002 at 08:11:47 Pacific
Subject: help a newbie with IP address question

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up to you??? it will work

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Response Number 9

Name: sssolidnesss@yahoo.c
Date: August 21, 2002 at 08:17:10 Pacific
Subject: help a newbie with IP address question

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Thanks guys... you saved me a lot of unnecessary work.

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