Re: running out of IP Address! help!

Dell has some really nice Layer-3 switches in their powerconnect line that
are bargain-priced. A client recently bought one, brand new from Dell, on
sale for under $1000. This was a 24 port 10/100/1000 + 2 1000TX/SX combo
ports. I believe it could handle 4096 VLANs + router interfaces. If speed is
a concern, a layer-3 switch is the way to go. It'll route packets just as
fast as it can switch them. And it'll let you build that gigabit backbone
that Phillip was speaking of. You'd be hard pressed to exhaust a gigabit
backbone's capacity. My commercial metro-rings run on gigabit backbones,
carry traffic all around town and from the next town, and run in single
digit utilization percentages 20 out of 24 hours a day! I've never seen it
hit 20% capacity (and I graph it 24/7).

Now to another point about number of hosts per subnet. If it's all on one
wire, having subnets won't prevent broadcasts. Unless you contain the
broadcasts to wired segments or VLANs, a broadcast is a broadcast (as far as
network utilization goes). Now the computers will only process broadcasts
within their own subnet (the broadcast address of the 192.168.0/24 net is
different than the 192.168.1/24 net). But all _Ethernet_ broadcasts will
still hit every port and every device. If you VLAN it off, all broadcasts
will only hit ports that are members of that VLAN (or trunks), but will
still be propogated to the backbone. So unless you have a physical network
infrastructure designed to contain broadcasts, subnetting may not help all
that much.

....kurt

"Phillip Windell" <@.> wrote in message
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"chris" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks for all the response and its been very helpful. So all I need to
do
is purchase 2 lan router and set it to forward DHCP queries and create
another scope on my DHCP server with 192.168.3.x? Its very similar to my
remote office setup with 192.168.1.x.

The number of routers would be determined by the number of segments and
the
number of physical Ethernet ports on the router (not counting VLAN
capability). I use an HP 5304xl which is a combination Switch and Router
in
the same device. It has the capability to run 256 different subnets with
just the one router and can have 192 physical Ethernet ports on it. But
we
have about $10,000 wrapped up in that thing.

Do you have any suggestion of what product I should get? My network
currently consist of 3com and cisco. Thanks again for all of your
inputs..
its greatly appreciated.

I have no specific suggestion,..but if you find one that has enough
Ethernet
ports you can do it with only one router. Some are modular and have
modules
that can be added to give them more ports. You don't have to "shoot for
the
moon" with it,...just get what it takes to do the job. Many of the more
advance Switches out there are Layer3 Switches, which is just a Switch and
Router built into the same "box",...that is probably the cheapest way to
go
since not only will it work as a router, but it works as a switch at the
same time.

--
Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com
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"Phillip Windell" wrote:

"chris" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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My company has a class C network 192.168.0.x and using AD with DHCP.
Only
5% available and need to think of something quick. I read some
articles
about segmenting 2 with a router 192.168.0.x /192.168.1.x
255.255.255.0
and
this should work. I'm sorta new to this and the only problem with
this is
that we have a remote facility that already has a segment of
192.168.1.x
through a dedicated T1 using 2 cisco routers.

Then use a range that is not in use,...there are still 254 of them
left.
And they don't have to be sequential, although it is nice if the
are,...it
can simplify routing.

The remote site is using the
cisco dhcp from the router to assign the 192.168.1.x IP's. Is it
possible
to
have another subnet while keeping my scope the same? maybe my HQ
would
have 2
physical segmets with 192.168.0.x / 192.168.2.x ? since my remote
site
already have 192.168.1.x.

You just add a new *regular* Scope to the DHCP (No Superscopes!) for
the
new
segment you want to add. The LAN Router that you will use between this
new
segment and the original segment will have to be configured to forward
the
DHCP Queries from the hosts to the DHCP Server. That is all there is
to
it.

--
Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com
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