Wednesday, February 24, 2021

Increase Subnet vs Multiple Interface IPs

So I am currently in a debate with another technician about either:

* a) adding another /24 interface + dhcp_pool to a VLAN

* b) just changing the subnet mask to /23 (which can be done as gaps were left during the design)

This is for a wired network and would not increase beyond /23, would just mean updating the netmask in DHCP (this network is almost pure dhcp, with 100 static leases and maybe 10 actual static ips on devices)

Is there any performance reason for picking one over the other (ie broadcast traffic etc). Security is not a concern, in this case, so addressing the space separately (via /24) does not matter.



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