Planning addresses for the small office network

Applies To: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2003 with SP1, Windows Server 2003 with SP2

Planning addresses for the small office network

The following sections describe how IP addresses are assigned for this small office network scenario.

IP addressing

IP addresses are assigned based on the private network ID of 192.168.0.0 for each network segment that uses a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0. This provides for growth of up to 254 computers on each network segment.

The following table shows the assignment of IP addresses for this scenario.

IP addresses for the small office network

Segment	IP address with a subnet mask	Range of host IDs
Network A	192.168.1.0, 255.255.255.0	192.168.1.1-192.168.1.254
Network B	192.168.2.0, 255.255.255.0	192.168.2.1-192.168.2.254
Network C	192.168.3.0, 255.255.255.0	192.168.3.1-192.168.3.254

After planning the network for this small office, addresses are assigned (either manually or by using DHCP) in the ranges described in the preceding table for all other computers on Networks A, B, and C.

Note

• The example companies, organizations, products, people and events depicted herein are fictitious. No association with any real company, organization, product, person or event is intended or should be inferred.