[MLB-WIRELESS] IP address range for Geelong?

[Greg]

I'm no MSCE but could we consider the last three digits of the Nodes
PostCode as the IP in there somewhere so as to easier recognise the general
location?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Adrian Close" <adrian at close.wattle.id.au>
To: <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 1:51 PM
Subject: RE: [MLB-WIRELESS] IP address range for Geelong?


> 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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