I'm going to be changing my Subnet to 24 Mask Bits. Currently, the switch is at 16 Mask Bits and my end points (PCs, Servers, Appliances, etc) are at 8 Mask Bits. These endpoints are statically assigned.
Can I change the endpoint's mask before I change the switch mask? I changed a few this past week. They were 255.0.0.0 and I made them 255.255.255.0. The switch is still at 255.255.0.0 and endpoints still seem to be communicating. When the endpoints are changed over I can set the switch to 255.255.255.0.