[MLB-WIRELESS] IP address range for Geelong?

Adrian Close adrian at close.wattle.id.au
Tue Feb 12 13:51:20 EST 2002


On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, ABBENHUYS, Ryan wrote:

> Perhaps we should add an IP alloction table sort of page to the Melbwireless
> website.

*chants*  Documentation!  Documentation!  Documentation!   *thwack*

We should definitely document IP address allocations.  And we should start
as soon as we start handing them out (trying to sort it out later is a
right pain).

We should also _definitely_ plan for connecting Melbourne <-> Geelong.
Actually I think we should plan for connections to the world, but that's
another story...

Putting my personal preference for globally routing IP allocations aside
for the moment, I would suggest that "everything above 10.200.0.0" is
rather a lot of address space to be giving out (even if it is "private").

Perhaps we could start with 10.200.0.0/16 instead (i.e. 10.200.x.y) for
Geelong and allocate Class C blocks out of that (e.g. 10.200.1.0/24) for
individual Geelong sites.  That of course only allows for 256 Geelong
sites, but this is a problem I'd _like_ to have and we can always move on
to 10.201/16 (or allocate smaller blocks per site in the first place -
/26's or something).

> Could be in a members only section possibly?

I don't see any problem with publically accessible network documentation,
especially for a public, community network.  Now, access to _maintain_ the
documentation is another story.  It occurs to me that DNS is a great way
to distribute public network documentation...  :)

Adrian.


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