Most home networks use IP addresses in the 192.168.0.0/24 (i.e., the bottom line shown above) because so many of the small network routers available today are set up to assign these addresses.

I would like to split that up and have a new appliance solely for network storage. We have 150 users with only relatively minimal storage requirements.

Why switch to Linux? More security, more privacy, and freedom from vendor lock-in. And these distributions are as simple to ...