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Multiple Tenants to share T1!
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I have a client which just purchased a building with 15 small offices.
His GOAL is to lease each office to individuals and offer High Speed Internet access to each Tenant. He is going to have a FULL T1 installed soon.
My question is, what type of hardware do I need to setup so each Tenant can have access to the Internet WITHOUT seeing and interfering with the other Tenants network?
I was thinking of using Linksys Routers for each Tenant but not sure how to hook up to the T1 since it only has one Ethernet port with a Static IP!
I know I can change the Linksys Routers to have different Sub-Nets which would prevent the other Tenants from seeing each other networks.
Your inputs is greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
I have a client which just purchased a building with 15 small offices.
His GOAL is to lease each office to individuals and offer High Speed Internet access to each Tenant. He is going to have a FULL T1 installed soon.
My question is, what type of hardware do I need to setup so each Tenant can have access to the Internet WITHOUT seeing and interfering with the other Tenants network?
I was thinking of using Linksys Routers for each Tenant but not sure how to hook up to the T1 since it only has one Ethernet port with a Static IP!
I know I can change the Linksys Routers to have different Sub-Nets which would prevent the other Tenants from seeing each other networks.
Your inputs is greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
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You might also look at VLANs (Virtual Local Area Networks).
You can implement VLANs on your switch quite easily.
http://net21.ucdavis.edu/newvlan.htm - has some basic VLAN info.
From http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/V/VLAN.html
Short for virtual LAN, a network of computers that behave as if they are connected to the same wire even though they may actually be physically located on different segments of a LAN. VLANs are configured through software rather than hardware, which makes them extremely flexible. One of the biggest advantages of VLANs is that when a computer is physically moved to another location, it can stay on the same VLAN without any hardware reconfiguration.
You can implement VLANs on your switch quite easily.
http://net21.ucdavis.edu/newvlan.htm - has some basic VLAN info.
From http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/V/VLAN.html
Short for virtual LAN, a network of computers that behave as if they are connected to the same wire even though they may actually be physically located on different segments of a LAN. VLANs are configured through software rather than hardware, which makes them extremely flexible. One of the biggest advantages of VLANs is that when a computer is physically moved to another location, it can stay on the same VLAN without any hardware reconfiguration.
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I don't know what type of Router, if any..the ISP is going to provide since he hasn't ordered yet! Most of them use the Adtran units here in Florida. On the T1 LAN interface side I'm guessing that there won't be DHCP since I'll be assigning all Routers with Static IPs, correct?
Even if the ISp gave out 2 or 3 Static IPs, I don't think it would be enough for all the clients. If the T1 is going to do all the NAT translation, what happens with the NAT in the Linksys Routers? They also do NAT.
With this many routers on the LAn will there be a speed issue for the LAN users?
VLAN also sounds like a good idea, but software to me is not reliable as the hardware, at least in my opinion.
Even if the ISp gave out 2 or 3 Static IPs, I don't think it would be enough for all the clients. If the T1 is going to do all the NAT translation, what happens with the NAT in the Linksys Routers? They also do NAT.
With this many routers on the LAn will there be a speed issue for the LAN users?
VLAN also sounds like a good idea, but software to me is not reliable as the hardware, at least in my opinion.
You'll then want to have a switch and a subnet which for all the WAN sides of routers for the tenants. their WAN configuration would really be an internal subnet with the default gateway being the LAN side of your internet router
Each office would then have their own subnet for a lan, and the firewall on the routers will block them from getting into any other office.