On Sun, 21 May 2006, Justin Cook wrote:
I've just acquired 210.48.96.88/30. The two IP addresses in the block are intended for a couple of vmware instances. We're not using anything nice like a Cisco router, just a Linksys stand-in for now. It has some basic static routing capabilities.
Heya Justin. I saw your mail to NZNOG - I hope this will help. Your new subnet has been routed out to the static IP of your router, which will be assigned to the _external_ interface. What you'll want to do is assign an IP from the new subnet to the _internal_ interface on your linksys - this ip will then be your gateway IP for all of your servers (or VMware instances). Those servers (or VMWare instances) should be assigned IPs from the rest of the new subnet. Please note that a /30 only gives you two usable IP addresses, that's no good because you'll be using one of them for your internal interface on the router, and you want to then run a couple of servers as well. I've just checked, and that /30 can be expanded into a /29 easily. So easily, in fact, that we've just pre-emptively changed to a /29 for you. :) That gives you six usable IP addresses in your new /29 subnet. Attached is a diagram which shows you how you should set things up at your end - any questions, feel free to contact me. JSR
