Hello, I have a question, everything is working fine, i am just wondering if it could be a problem down the road, or if it is a problem and we dont know it!
I inhearited our companies network that was designed by a Novell admin and slowly went from IPX to TCP/IP 7 years ago. Now, Novell is competly gone and we have just stand-alone windows servers and run all TCP/IP. we have 3 locations that are connected by a VPN with cisco 1700 routers.
The issue is that our ip configuration is 100.x.x.x with 255.0.0.0 subnet for one office, 101.x.x.x with 255.0.0.0 for a second office and 103.x.x.x with 255.0.0.0 for a third office. we skipped 102 because at one point in the past we had a T1 that the network connecting 100 and the 101 network was a 102 network. We have 50 devices on the 100 network and 25 or so on the 101 and 103 networks. so we really dont need that large of a subnet for any reason. I have looked into that the 100,101, and 103 where ip blocks owned by someplace in europe (i think..it has been a few years since i looked into that), and we would never deal with these in our day to day business so i am not worried about having problems with these being real world IPs that we wouldnt be able to access.
I have talked to our company president about changing this over to a 192.168.x.x type network and his thoughts are that if it isnt broken then dont waste the time fixing it.
So after all that, my question is...is it broke or not, are we looseing performance, or would there be a benifit to our network if we changed...or just leave well enough alone and going forward with new network locations start going to a 192.168.x.x type network?
Thank You.
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