Dear All,

Scenario:
I have(had) a network in 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0. I neither have a router (nor additional linux/windows boxes to setup s software router)

I had the following considerations:
1) Number of physically approachable locations are becoming increasing - my office is spread accross buildings with Fibre cable connectivity on a media converter and some cases direct lan cable.
2) Moving devices in LAN like laptops are increasing .
3) I cannot use DHCP as many users connect to aplications on different machines daily like tomcat oracle etc on client machines also.

I was running short of IPs'.. almost daily at a given point I have an IP address conflict, for which I have to move around buildings..(this is not a problem for me but users' work is effected with my un-professinal job)

So I came up with a new addressing scenario 192.168.0.0/255.255.240.0 in which 192.168.1.0/255.255.240.0 to 192.168.6.0/255.255.240.0 will be used for different physical locations.

Question:

1) Is this a bad way of IP addressing?
2) Is there an alternative?
3) Are the lan swithces loaded with more job?

Thank you
MAhen

Someone correct me if I am wrong but I think you can set addtion IPs on the same nic as Alias IP. Then using iptables or setup some sort of bridging between them all on the same nic. Now there is going to be a done of data on this nic this way. This is where it is better to add addtional network cards and connect one to each zoned switch. Then bridge them together. Smart switches would be of help in setup like this to widing the bandwidth of the zones. So the better option is addtional network cards setup to their differnet class IPs. Note you can only define one them with a gateway. The addtional cards will only need an IP and netmask setting.

Brian

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