Not enough IPs!
At Diggers today we ran out of vacant IP address leases on the DHCP server! This means that we were pushing more than 230 people out through the network, which is amazing.
After a bit of a think, and a call to Steve I increased the subnet from /24 to /23, meaning that 192.168.12.1 to 192.168.13.254 were available addresses.
Initially I had attempted to assign a virtual interface with a /24 subnet to eth0, and hoped that it would answer half the DHCP requests with a 192.168.13.x IP, but that didn't happen. A quick call to Steve and he confirmed my fears, and agreed that increasing the subnet was the easiest solution.
Now, if we get more than 480 IPs used up, we're in trouble ;)
This may seem silly but whats wrong with opening it up to a /20? Surely that would prevent any future probs…
Only reason I could see not to open it up more is there are already computers on the network utilising that space? Obviously PCs with addresses won’t be able to access newly connected computers until their lease is refreshed but that doesn’t really have too much impact? meh maybe you are running in 64M of RAM just like Linux is built for meheheh :)
Sounds pretty cool though, looks like you are definitely learning a lot about running a half decent service providing LAN :)
You’re right, we could open it up further. I kept it a tighter because then I feel like I’ve got a bit more control over things. It’s probably just in my mind.
As for 64MB, each of these server machines (router.diggers.conf and services.diggers.conf) are 3.2GHz HT P4 processors with a jiggerbyte of RAM. They’re not even warmed up, let alone breaking a sweat.
I smell the beginnings of a couple of WA Battlefield and Doom 3 servers :) haha
We just recieved 2 Dell quad Xeon servers here with 4G each… they are little beasts :) 2RU and fit 6 disks each!! Ors!
Tops as! Actually, I’m going to download Return to Castle Wolfenstein - thanks for reminding me!
Why dont you just ask me I can give you a copy of RTCW? Official version.