From: Howard C. Berkowitz (hcb@gettcomm.com)
Date: Tue Mar 04 2003 - 11:33:25 GMT-3
At 9:18 PM -0800 3/3/03, Angelo De Guzman wrote:
>To All,
> I have many VLANS on my 6500 switch. I wanted to
>simplify my network numbering. Which is better for a
>LAN set-up, /23 or /24? I wanted to know what will be
>the disadvantage of using each. I have some ideas
>(collision, broadcast, etc.) but I wanted to know
>more.
I'm completely confused. /29 or /19 might be even better, depending
on the problem you are trying to solve.
How is your network numbering a problem now?
If you are trying to figure out how many hosts can coexist in a VLAN,
that will still depend on the amount of broadcast/multicast traffic
and the power of the hosts. As a very general rule of thumb, it's
probably wise to avoid having more than 500 or so hosts from the
broadcast standpoint, thus /23 for that. But for a graphics-intense
application, or server synchronization, bandwidth could determine the
practical limit.
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