Subnet Planning Question

From: Kevin Longley (kwlongley_at_cirtronics.com)
Date: 06/25/04 

Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 09:24:30 -0400

My network is presently configured to use the 192.168 private ip address
range with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0. This basically allows a maximum
of 254 host addresss's. I can foresee that within a few years I may exceed
that amount of host address's. I can't foresee needing more than around 500
ip address's for hosts so my question is this:

Should I reconfigure the subnet mask, dhcp scopes, etc. in the private ip
address range of 192.168 to allow for around that amount of address's and
therefore leave my options open should I need to have a routed network or is
it really a non issue since there are other private ip address ranges that
could be used? I am running a switched network for all nodes so that traffic
is a not an issue. Presently support about 125 devices. All opinions
welcome.

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