[Gllug] Fwd: IT Week needs your expert opinion

[Richard Jones]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 05:11:06PM +0100, Doug Winter wrote:
> 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.

Perhaps when my home network is bought out I'll finally be able to
retire to a Hawaiian island :-?

Rich.

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