From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 30 14:42:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail13.bigmailbox.com (mail13.bigmailbox.com [209.132.220.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C00F637B479 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 14:42:13 -0800 (PST) Received: œby mail13.bigmailbox.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA26753; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 14:48:35 -0800 Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 14:48:35 -0800 Message-Id: <200010302248.OAA26753@mail13.bigmailbox.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary X-Mailer: MIME-tools 4.104 (Entity 4.116) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Originating-Ip: [63.28.162.224] From: "gummibear@nettaxi.com" To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: IP Address Management 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). Anyways, I just wanted to know if there are any undocumented standards or conventions to the application of IP addresses. Thanks! Joey ------------------------------------------------------------ Nettaxi MP3 Player, Burner, Ripper - NEW Version 2.0!!! DOWNLOAD IT FREE! (5MBs) MP3 DOWNLOAD: http://www.nettaxi.com/mp3/version_2/ntxy_MP3_setup.exe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message