David Brodbeck wrote:
Don Levey wrote:
1) Segregate dynamic IPs into one netblock, static IPs into another.
I think as we get closer and closer to running out of IPv4 addresses,
this is going to get less and less common. A lot of places can no
longer afford to have IPs sitting around unused because of subnetting.
They don't need actually to sub-net them, just group them in cidr-style blocks
by type when possible. This causes less waste than true subnetting, but lets
categorization possible in a sane way.
ie: you could have a /25 of static IPs and a /25 of dynamic IPs together in the
same /24 and use the actual /24 as a subnet. Or a /26 of statics and 3 /26's of
dynamics, whatever. Any grouping at all would be helpful.
Right now in Brazil they'd create this by having some random mixture with no
separation at all other than on an ip-by-ip basis.
I can't imagine this makes DHCP server administration at all easy for them
either, as they will have to hand set certain IPs as static in the config. So
why they do it this way is completely beyond me.
