On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 15:39, Alain Reguera wrote: > I would select: > 1. Pay for a network engineer. > 2. Pay for new routers and make a more complex design for departments. > 3. > > 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. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com