IP address range

[Simon Hobson]

Jason Penton wrote:

>I want to use DHCPD to server addresses for the follwoing network
>172.16.0.0/16. How do I configure this in the dhcpd.conf file. ie.
>will it look as follows:
>
>range 172.16.0.1 176.16.254.254

The available range is actually 172.16.0.1 to 172.16.255.254. In 
practice you wouldn't want to do this though.

1) It's a lot of addresses and will slow down the server. Better to 
keep the range closer to your actual needs (I'm assuming you don't 
have 65,000 clients on the network).

2) It leaves no free addresses for routers or other devices.

The netmask is 255.255.0.0

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