Chapter 14. Address Management Tactics
The previous chapter looked at some of the different network environments and how each environment can affect how you plan for and manage an address space. This chapter expands on this foundation by introducing some of the tactics you can use to manage an address space day-to-day.
When discussing address management with hostmasters, I have yet to find one who described the job as an exact science. In fact, the usual response is an uncomfortable shrug and a sheepish admission that the job is really more of an art than a science. As such, very few universal rules apply. Success in this capacity depends on the hostmaster's innate grasp of binary mathematics vis-à-vis organizational requirements. Given the ...
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