Saturday, August 17, 2019

A subnetting rant

I've gone over it twice now. I have yet to memorize the math, because I'm still grappling with the concept.

Why do we need to subnet like this? Why? Why?!

If our Domain Host is whatever.whatever.whatever.0, and we know that it broadcasts through that and unicasts direct to machines with matching MAC addies and IPs on that, what is the point of the /whatever system?!?!

Why is it insufficient to just assign IPs from .2 - .255 and just keep a chart? In most SOHO situations you have like 4 or 5 things connected...Why do we need all this headache of subnetting? Just give printer .2, dhcp the phone and the ipad, and you've got from .5 to .255 to assign to anything you want.



No comments:

Post a Comment