? Can you restate this, i didn't follow.
You are being asked to create a subnet with 1000 nodes?
and you need to know what the mask should be?
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I am network admin and i want to know that i want to setup 1000 nodes workstation in my organization and company asked me to design the network for the same.This network contains the windows 2003 server domain controller,dhcp,dns servers.
I want to implement the subnetting systems for the smae network.subnet will be like 192.168.1.0/192.168.2.0..e
Pl advice friends
GEN
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if you have no idea of how vlans work i recommend you read this first.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wi
Hi Freya28:
i got it but am still confuse that how my client will know from where to take ip address ? secondly if possible can u send me some connectivity diagram for the 600 pcs network please ?
i am assurng u , u helped me and i will definatly i wll give u points..my email id is <mediainc1978@yahoo.com>
GEN
if you have 600 pc's then cut up your network into at least 3 subnets. your ip helper address will point to the dhcp server. your dhcp server will have scopes pertaining to your subnets. the "router" optioon for each scope will point to the ip of each perspective vlan interace ip address. any dhcp request made a from a host will pull a dhcp address from the provided scope.
I would suggest designing the subnets according to the departmental needs which will help you aggergate this route and keep the routing table small. This will also help in router do effiecient rouitng. All this node wont be located on a single floor nor would be used by a single department I suppose. You can take the IP 192.168.1.0 and subnet it with 1 bit that is /128 and you will have 2 subnets (x.x.x.0 and x.x.x.128)with 126 host each. The second subnet of x.x.x.128 can agian be subnetted with a /192 that is 2 bits and you will have 4 subnets with 64 host each. You can go on subnetting each unused subnet and you can assign them to the proper department according to their host requirement.But dont forget scalability that is take into account the future IP needs of each department and assing subnet accordingly. This departmental seggregation will also help you in restricting access to each other based on the ACL or VLAN approach you take. With a single IP say 192.168.1.0 you can address dozen of departments with 100s of host. Also it will help the core layer routing device with a small routing table as you can aggregate the subnet address when you pass routing updates from one device to another by aggregating subnets and passing them as a single route.
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by: Freya28Posted on 2007-10-11 at 08:47:26ID: 20058353
i do not recommend 1000 nodes on one subnet. i would use a layer 3 device (router or layer 3 switch) to create vlans. it is best practice to keep you subnets small. the smaller the better, this will reduce broadcasts. at the least you would need 4 class C subnets.
192.168.1.0/24
192.168.2.0/24
192.168.3.0/24
192.168.4.0/24
this would satisfy your 1000 nodes and group them into 4 subnets to reduce braodcasts, and it is better for network managment