Re: Best Practices for Subnetting

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I'm assuming that the degradation after 250-300 hosts comes from excessive arp requests? If not then from where?

It seems like the only drawbacks to using a router or layer 3 switch is that I loose the ability to broadcast between subnets and isn't there a performance hit when you go across the router as opposed to staying local on your subnet? Are there any others that I should be aware of?

Phillip Windell wrote:
Ethernet degrades after 250-300 hosts. Stay with the /24 subnet of 254 Hosts.

Just buy a simple LAN Router or Layer3 Switch (Switch and Router in same device) and add an additional /24bit 254 Host segment,..giving you a total of 508 Hosts

Using DNS for resolution does not negate the need of Netbios Over TCP/IP and the use of the browser service. Everybody using Active Directory is already using DNS for resolution so that doesn't really mean anything.

Sooner or later you will run across Applications that require those things to function,...it is not *just* about Windows,...it is about all the gazillions of Applications foating around out there that has those requirements. Even most versions of Outlook require it to work properly and dependably with Exchange.


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