best prictice in assigning IP-adresses in WIN2K

[Guest]

What would be best practice of following two possibilitysWe use WIN2K with
DHCP enabled)

10.10.10.1-n for servers; 10.10.100.1-n for clients; 10.10.200.1-n for
printers

or

10.10.10.1-49 for servers; 10.10.10.50-199 for cliens; 10.10.10.200-250 for
printers

In other words which octet of the IP-adres should I use to be device
specific. Are there risks involved in using possibility 1? My
IT-service-company advices me to use option 1 because otherwise we risk to
have routing-problems, dns-problems etc...

Is this through?

 

[Kurt]

It really depends on how many computers/devices you have. You have not
specified your subnet mask or how you route (since you said you'd have
problems with routing) between subnets and/or to the Internet. Assuming
option 1 uses a subnet mask of 255.255.0.0, your router Internet router
would have to be able to handle a "Class B"-size netmask (16 bits). If the
mask is 255.255 .255 0, each block (10, 100, and 200) are different subnets,
and you'd need routers between them.
If option 2 uses a mask of 255.255.255.0, any SOHO router should handle
that. But if you need more than 254 hosts, you're outta luck.

....kurt