On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 7:53 PM, John Hodrien J.H.Hodrien@leeds.ac.uk wrote:
Currently I have this network: 10.1.16.0/22. 10.1.16.0-10.16.17.254 are DHCP managed 10.1.18.0-10.1.19.254 are statically assigned
If I need to expand it to: 10.1.16.0/20
I think the answer to this part is not trivially. A machine in the /20 subnet will expect to be able to talk directly to a machine within the /22, but that machine will want to talk via a router. You can hide subnets within subnets using arp-proxying, but I'm not sure there's an easier way.
A machine within the /22 would be able to talk to any other machine within that /22 (even if they're configured to use /20), but won't be able to happily talk to machines within the /20 but outside of the /22.
Hi John, Thanks for helping. I have some discussion also with friends in the physical world, and they suggest: 1. Keep the current network 10.1.16.0/22 2. Create another network 10.1.20.0/22 (half static, half dhcp) 3. Setup a router so that the two network can talk to each other. 4. This will offer no disruption to the current network setup at all.
One issue that I see may be coming is that, since I want to allocate 10.1.20.0/22 to a specific VM that belong to a specific team, I may have to setup the DHCP based on MAC. Could be very tedious.