On Mon, 14 Jan 2013, Tony Langdon <vk3jed@gmail.com> wrote:
How many home users actually do this? Good practice or not, I'd say very few (this list would be an unrepresentative sample, skewing estimates very much higher than reality). Segmented networks can be a pain for non technical users with today's plug and play (pray?) devices which expect to find each other on the same LAN segment.
You can use a smart switch or a Linux box running bridging to enforce any form of firewall controls on different parts of the same subnet. So why is there a need for different subnets? It's a poor design to have the minimum subnet be 2^64 addresses though. 2^48 addresses for all Ethernet devices in the world hasn't turned out to be any sort of problem and it's only recently that 2^32 IP addresses for the entire world became a problem (and things still work reasonably well even though almost no-one is IPv6 only). -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/