Planning your network. Increasing to more ip addresses. Here are some tools

So my customer wants more users – like MANY more hundreds of users, so i need more than 200 that a 192.168.1.0 network would give. Here are some great planning tools. This is all being done with pfsense on a soekris hardware box.

http://tuxgraphics.org/toolbox/network_address_calculator_add.html for ip planning. It tells you the starting and finishing addresses.
understanding netmasks: http://www.rhyshaden.com/ipadd.htm

iPhone and normal VPN on pfSense – Lt2p over iPSec – can a mac connect to pfSense?

https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=83321.0 ideally shows how to connect a mac which uses l2tp over ipsec. No luck.

pfsense docs are here on this topic. Checking …

I did get the cisco ipSec working for an iPhone to connect to pfSense. See this article. I have done no testing to see what one can do – but it said you can connect. What I really wanted was LT2P over iPsec because this is the default for all the clients at my customers and they all have iPhones.