How many clients per network

[jonwilbanks]

What is the general rule of thumb about how many computers should be on a single subnet? Clients range range from Win95 to WinXP and are on a single Win2K domain. Right now I have about 500 clients located in 7 buildings with fiber connections between buildings and all the buildings are on a 250 acre campus.

Would you subnet it or leave all the clients on one network?

 

[JoshWithrow]

I'd subnet for management reasons. it's alot easier to isolate problems, and just to manage in general.

 

[tpluskota]

I would use a class B address scheme, for example building 1's network address would be 128.10.0.0 building 2 would be 128.11.0.0 building 3 128.12.0.0 and so on.
I find this an easy way to manage your network plus you won;t run out of addresses.