Hey TS,

Yup, all the clients are masked with 255.255.0.0. And its all just one happy 65,000+ possible IPs subnet, with around 700 IPs actually in use. As for the third question, yup, we do use DHCP, but its not truly dynamic - IP addresses are binded to the MAC addresses of the machines.

TS, how would having DHCP or otherwise affect things here?

As an aside, I tried enabling BroadCast Storm Control on the switches in the network [we have 3Com SuperStack switches]. I thought this would mean frames would be just dropped randomly once the frame rate per second exceeded defined limit. And I was wrong. The switch closes down the port sending out the large number of frames, and keeps it closed till the frame rate actually goes down. In other words, the entire segment on that port would just be shut down. Just thought I'd share that bit of headache I'd crafted for myself today morning.


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