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Re: 10.x.x.x networks

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Cappuccio)
Fri Nov 10 18:10:33 2000

Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 15:08:32 -0800 (PST)
From: Chris Cappuccio <chris@dqc.org>
To: Michael Long <mlong@sac.verio.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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No. IPs are just numbers. Who cares what segment you use.  The only
reason you wouldn't want to use the first or last part of a subnet is if you
have machines running very, very old software (like a Cisco router that won't
do ip subnet-zero)

On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Michael Long wrote:

 | 
 | 
 | I've been having a friendly arguement with some friends at work about
 | wheather it's right or wrong to use 10.255.255.0/24 for a network.
 | Technically it should work, but during our conversations we keep coming
 | back to best practiced IP schemes. I'm wondering what others think about
 | this. Is using 10.255.255.0/24 and possibly the reverse 10.0.0.0/24 bad
 | practice?
 | 
 | Mike
 | 
 | 
 | 
 | 
 | 

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