[isalist] Re: Isa 2004 and CIDR?

  • From: "Thomas W Shinder" <tshinder@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 10:09:20 -0500

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It's actually a network ID, not a sub-network ID

Thomas W Shinder, M.D.
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:isalist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Thor 
> (Hammer of God)
> Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 10:07 AM
> To: isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [isalist] Re: Isa 2004 and CIDR?
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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.
> 
> t
> 
> 
> On 7/12/06 7:57 AM, "Jim Harrison" <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx> spoketh to all:
> 
> > http://www.ISAserver.org
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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.
> > 
> > Sent via WM5-enabled PPC-phone
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: "Taps" <Taps@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > 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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> recognize the fact
> > that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more 
> beautiful than
> > the garment with which it is clothed?"
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> > 
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