[Gllug] Fwd: IT Week needs your expert opinion

[Doug Winter]

On Thu 16 Oct Matthew King wrote:
> "Because you can"
> 
> After all, with 10.0.0.0/8 - who's losing out?

You.  Because one day you'll need another subnet.

Obviously you can subnet 172.16/12 and 192.168/16 if you want, but
sometimes you need to share a network with someone else (like you want
to VPN from work to home?) and it's most useful to have been
conservative with 1918 allocation.

It's also not a bad idea (I wish I'd done this) to choose a subnet
randomly from somewhere in the 1918 address spaces, so that if you ever
do need to do this (merger/takeover/liquidity event), you have a decent
chance that your subnets don't clash.

doug.

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