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Best practice from switching from Class C address to Class B

Hello.

What is the best way of changing from Class C IP address scheme to Class B IP address scheme? I currenlty have a list of nodes- servers, workstations, printers, routers, switches, and etc. Should this be done in phases? I also have to remote offices as well.

What are the benefits of going to Class B? I know it gives more host ip addresses but the draw back is broadcasting storms.

Please clarify. Thanks in advance for your help and input.

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g000se

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why don't you deploy pure class B- network? so you are saying the address would be 196.178.x.x 255.255.0.0

I am curious, what would you recommend?

bbao

hi g000se, what i mean is, if we have a class-B network, commonly we should divide it into serveral subnets, some of the subnets will be even smaller than common class-C networks, based on the divisions, business functions or people's roles. this will not only prevent broadcasting storms as you mentioned, but also reduce the cost of network maintenance, make the network easy to deploy, keep healthy and scalable.

g000se

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Did you ever switch from class c to class b or did you inherit that way? If you did how did go about accomplishing it?

bbao

i didnt switch from class C to B directly but i did plan and implement several class-B networks which were built by a lot of class-C and even smaller subnets in different sizes, some of them had been expanded to multi-class-C networks after years.

g000se

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thanks for the clarification.

bbao

glad to help. thanks for your grade and points. :)