[c-nsp] Network Size

[Brant I. Stevens]

I've heard that performance from broadcasts begins to degrade ~350 hosts/IP
subnet, but I'm not sure of where that was.  Personally, I would split that
2000~2100 hosts up into networks of /24 or /23...  It just makes things
easier, IMHO.


On 02/03/2005 04:03 PM, "Ryan O'Connell" <ryan at complicity.co.uk> wrote:

> On 03/02/2005 20:34, jexum at harding.edu wrote:
> 
>> This may be one of those obvious questions but I'll ask anyway...
>> 
>> Are there any guidlines for how many systems should be in one network
>> (broadcast domain).
>> 
>> I currently have 2000-2100 systems in one network here on my campus and we
>> seem to have some issues with being to large, poor performance mostly not
>> related to errors.  I have often read articles saying if your network is to
>> large you need to split it up.  They just never seem to define "to large".
>>  
>> 
> 
> 2,000 hosts is too many for one broadcast domain, 20-100 would be typical.