On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 15:39, Alain Reguera wrote:
I would select:
- Pay for a network engineer.
- Pay for new routers and make a more complex design for departments.
just specify your network to be bigger than that. For example 192.168.0.0-192.168.1.255 gives you 510 hosts 192.168.0.0/23
router-------PC with 2NICS--------Institute LAN real IP 192.168.0.0-192.168.1.255 192.168.0.0/23
Is supernetting available this way or can be used only between routers?
I can't think of any currently useful equipment that is still restricted to address classes. Just give out a netmask of 255.255.254.0. Or 255.255.252.0 for a range up to 192.168.3.255 so you don't have to change again next week. Note that you probably have a DHCP server somewhere that will have to be changed for the range of addresses and netmask along with anything with static assignments.