cohoe/impulse — Issue #103: Address Space Utilization
Author: clockfort
Created: 2012-03-09 06:16:13+00:00
State: open

Do overlapping ranges work safely in impulse?

If so, we could suddenly have a LOT better address utilization by having:
User Machines: 129.21.50.0/24
Projects/Usercenter/Printers: 129.21.50.0/24
User dynamic: 129.21.50.0/24
all overlapping, as long as impulse can handle that correctly, while retaining the ease of management that comes from having these useful tags on each entry. (i.e. it would still be easy to clean out all of the user machines every year, as they would still be tagged as such).

As it is, the user machine range is always full and people apparently put random shit in the usercenter/projects range that should really go elsewhere as a result.

Also, I've noticed that a lot of the dumb usage of the user machine range is due to people putting their laptops' wired adapter in there, which are both rarely on the network to utilize an IP always reserved for them and don't need an always-reserved IP anyway as laptops (rarely/hopefully) are running dedicated dns/server setups that would require static IPs.