From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 31 9:14:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from siafu.iconnect.co.ke (upagraha.iconnect.co.ke [209.198.248.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FAA237B4E5 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 09:14:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.22.163.2] (helo=poeza.iconnect.co.ke) by siafu.iconnect.co.ke with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 13qet3-000OWT-00; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 20:07:50 +0300 Received: from wash by poeza.iconnect.co.ke with local (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13qew8-0004no-00; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 20:11:00 +0300 Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 20:10:59 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: gummibear@nettaxi.com Cc: FBSD-Q Subject: IP Address Management Message-ID: <20001031201059.F19900@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> Mail-Followup-To: Odhiambo Washington , gummibear@nettaxi.com, FBSD-Q Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD poeza.iconnect.co.ke 3.5-STABLE FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-Location: Mombasa, KE, East Africa Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG =>Hello! =>I was wondering what other sys admins do about IP Address =>management. By that I mean, the way (or, which method is commonly =>used to apply addresses for different devices) admins apply IP addresses =>to machines, printers, routers, etc. This there a certian convention used? =>I'm not sure if I'm totally making myself clear on this subject. But =>let's say you have a class C address block (192.168.0.0/24 for example). =>Where would you start numbering things off? At the router, server, etc? =>(router = 192.168.0.1, firewall = 192.168.0.2, server = 192.168.0.3, printer =>= 192.168.0.3 for example). I'm sure people don't apply addresses to =>machines at random, because that would be almost a nightmare to figure out =>what's what (unless you have DNS, or something to map it all out). Router 192.168.0.1 Main Server (DNS, RADIUS, MAIL) 192.168.0.2 NAS Server (PortMaster 192.168.0.3 - 192.168.0.5) -depends on how many you'll have so you can reserve a few IPs Workstations I give from 192.168.0.100 --> they will not be so many! Users who need fixed IP address (192.168.0.200 -->) Well I have 212.22.163.0/24 and I can always get more because we have enough but that is my practical scenario down here... No random allocations and I have a record on who has what IP HTH -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington Inter-Connect Ltd., wash@iconnect.co.ke 5th Flr Furaha Plaza Tel: 254 11 222604 Nkrumah Rd., Fax: 254 11 222636 PO Box 83613 MOMBASA, KENYA. If I had my life to live over again, I'd make the same mistakes sooner. -Flynn's Rumination To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message