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  • Seems like you’ve got a decent plan and have researched enough to make it happen. No major red flags, but here are some notes:

    10.0.0.0 /21 gives you 10.0.0.1 through 10.0.7.254 as usable addresses. You’ve got 8 useable subnets here 10.0.0.0, 10.0.1.0, 10.0.2.0 etc.).

    Therefore, consider 10.0.0.0 /22 which gives you 10.0.0.1 through 10.0.3.254, for a total of 4 subnets, unless that is not enough for your intent.

    Now, understand that having so many extra IPs isn’t going to inherently cause you any issues (unless maybe if you are doing a lot of internal network scanning), but it also isn’t necessary to achieve the logical separation of devices you’re looking for.

    Instead of having different subnets for each device grouping, you can put them all in the same subnet using predefined ranges. For example, X.X.X.1 through X X.X.9 might be servers. .10 through .19 can be dedicated to printers. And so on.

    If you still want the different subnets instead for your own experience, it will also function just fine. It’s just adding a lot of extraneous space.

    As for spreading out host addresses, no need, but you can if it fits your ideal network scheme.