2 Subnets on 1 Lan

[Les Mikesell]

Dave Ihnat wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 08:11:51AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> One possible issue here: you can't serve both address ranges via DHCP 
>> and keep then separated on the same wire.  In that scenario the DHCP 
>> server can't distinguish any difference in the requests unless you 
>> configure responses by MAC address.  If one of the ranges has statically 
>> assigned addresses, this isn't a problem.
> 
> Other services have problems, too; I think dynamic DNS may be upset at this,
> for one.
> 
> Oh, and another thing--it's important to segregate what you may consider
> acceptable in a small home network, and what would ever be acceptable in
> a business or professional environment.  I'd never advocate this outside
> an experimental environment.

Personally, I'd be more concerned about using anything that might break 
from an overlaid subnet in a production environment than the overlaid 
subnet itself.  But, in that situation you'd probably have VLAN capable 
switches anyway.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com