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Ok reading Kens reply, I realize the OP is already sing a private IP...

So going back to the OP's question, the only reason to switch to
10.x.x.x range is to allow for more addresses.

I'd assume that you're running out of space in 172.16.x.x to
172.31.x.x...though 65,534 IPs seems like a lot to me :)

Charles

On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Best practices now-a-days is to use public IPs only for publicly
accessible systems and to use an IP out of the private range for
everything internal.

Internet routers _WILL_NOT_ route packets to a system with a private
IP.  Thus, it's some extra security.  If somebody find a hole into the
network, they can't talk to your internal equipment.

Charles

On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 3:35 PM, John McKee <jmmckee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
When networking was started, there weren't a lot of devices, and the addresses were assigned to 172.16.x.x.  The corporate office wants all the hospitals in the system to convert to a 10.x.x.x addressing method.  Since all the locations use NAT to connect to the private network and then through the corporate office to the outside world, that doesn't make sense to me.  Is there any rationale for changing addressing behind a NAT firewall?


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