On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 22:06, Alain Reguera wrote:
The institution is formed by a PC with various eth interfaces, one to connect to the router, and a serie of 192.168.1-2-3-...n.0 that permit us to connect 254 workstation for each one. Maybe will be needed more than 1 box here, think that the number of eth interfaces in a PC is limited. The main objective here are browsing, mail and web publishing.
That's it, don't know if I explain my self. Don't know if my idea is correct, just an idea of what I've been reading on Douglas E. Comer TCP/IP (my first reading about networks).
If you are using private addresses on the inside interface(s) and NATting to a smaller number of public addresses there are any number of solutions to increase the number of addresses available on the inside. The simple one is to change the netmask of the interface to allow a larger range. However you may want to consider the bandwidth you need and whether it would be better to distribute it over more interfaces or add add additional servers.