[c-nsp] Network Size

[Kristofer Sigurdsson]

Brant I. Stevens, Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 07:47:02PM -0500 :
> 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.

I second that.  The biggest subnet of our networks is a /23, which will be
subnetted this year for easier management...

We've had no problems with /24, though, we have a lot of those, many of them
almost full, no problem (someone suggested that 20-100 hosts would be appropriate
per subnet).

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Kristófer Sigurðsson         | Tel: +354 525 4103 / MSN: ks at rhi.hi.is
Netsérfr./Network specialist | Reiknistofnun HÍ/University of Iceland