RE: Home LAN - IP Ranges

["Ian D. Wlloughby" <ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I tend to use the other class A private address scheme as it gives you more
scope my machines are all 10.1.1.* with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.* and
work is on 10.10.*.* 255.255.0.0. No clashes what so ever.

R's
Ian




From: Mark McCall
Sent: Fri 25/06/2004 12:16
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Home LAN - IP Ranges


My home LAN is currently on the range 192.168.0.x (as I'm using Windows
ICS), but this has meant I'm unable to VPN to work as it uses the same
range.  With ADSL arriving in a few weeks time I'll be taking the
opportunity to change my home LANs IP range to overcome this.

I've no understanding of Subnets, but from what I read a "class
C" IP range
allows 254 hosts on each of 2 million networks. Ample :)

So, I was planning to use 192.168.1.x at home, until James H mentioned it
might be a good idea to pick something more like 192.168.123.x or whatever
so I don't clash with other LANs I might want to VPN to in the future.

Anyone got any comments before I start changing IP addresses on TiVos,
Xboxes, switches etc?

Thanks

M.