[isalist] Re: Isa 2004 and CIDR?

  • From: "Thor (Hammer of God)" <thor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 08:06:53 -0700

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Well, to be pedantic, 1918 specifies 192.168.0.0 as a "block" of 256 C-Class
subnets, not as a subnet in itself.  So you really can't call 192.168 a /16
subnet.

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On 7/12/06 7:57 AM, "Jim Harrison" <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx> spoketh to all:

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> 1. Per RFC 1918, 192.168 is a /16 subnet; not a /24.
> 2. ISA will not care so long as you define the network properly.
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> From: "Taps" <Taps@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Sent: 7/11/06 18:47
> Subject: [isalist] Isa 2004 and CIDR?
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> I know this is going to sound like a silly question, but I cant find any
> information confirming or denying this:
> 
> We are currently using a 192.168.140.0/24 subnet in our internal
> network.  Recently, we have started using VMWare to do support of some
> of our customers.  We like to have duplicate setups of their servers in
> our virtual environment. At the extreme, our customers have 7 separate
> servers per site which we duplicate.  We have recently acquired many new
> customers and about half our what we term "multi-site".  So there is a
> possiblity of 14 or 21 servers.  Each of which needing a static IP
> address (because of the stupid way the software is written).
> 
> With the addition of these, plus the rest of our network, we are running
> out of IP Addresses.  I am thinking of dropping the subnet mask back to
> a /23 or /22.  To give me a usable range of
> 192.168.140.1-192.168.143.254.
> 
> I realizing because of CIDR, the theory of 192.x.x.x needing to be a
> classC isnt an absolute anymore.  But before I go through and make any
> changes, I was wondering if anyone could confirm or deny that ISA will
> handle this without any major issues.
> 
> Before you ask, yes, I plan on testing this before I roll it out.  But
> that wont be for a while.  I figured if anyone had tried something
> similar they could clue me in on any issues that they might have had.
> If someone has tried it and it just wont work, then I will find another
> alternative.
> 
> And yes, switching to a 10.x.x.x address was considered.  But again,
> with the way some of the software was written, the IP addresses would
> need to stay the same.
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