Class A Network

[ReadTheNetwork]

Hey all,

 

Just want your view on a summer job I had in mind (not sure how long it'll take). Our school is becoming an academy and moving away from County. The network Subnet was predefined by County (class A I think 10.110...), is it worth changing it to a class B? Just thinking in the long run, it might be easier to understand and document.

 

Servers on the .0 range,

Switches on .1.

Printers on .2 etc.

 

Or is this a little OTT?

[cpjitservices]

Nah stick with it, Class A is really irrelevant. Its more determined by your Subnet mask than IP. Whats your mask ? are you using a /24 bit mask ?

[markwilfan]

I did this last summer too. Makes troubleshooting much easier.

 

I went for 172.16.x.y

 

3 big 20 bit subnets for guest, student and staff wifi then starting at 172.16.100.x I have 24 bit subnets for all the usual stuff.

 

3rd octet of every range is the vlan number so 172.16.111.0/24 is vlan 111 etc

 

All nice and tidy

 

Took around 1 week and lots of planning