Cisco switch help for Newbie

The host range for your network is 10.0.0.1 - 10.0.1.254 and since 10.0.2.0/23 is outside that range, you are not on the same network.  The only way to communicate between multiple networks is with a Router.  How many hosts are needed?  It seems to me that if you only have those two switches, than you don't need 510 hosts per network.  Which is what the /23 provides.  You could probably get away with having everyone on the 10.0.0.0 /23 network.  If you do however need those two network address schemes than you need a router for them to talk, or a layer 3 switch.

Hi Nate_IT,

I think both of the switches in question are layer 3.  Unfortunately we need to utilize the subnet mask as is.

Can you tell me how we could configure the gig interfaces between the two switches to make the two networks communicate?

Thank you so much!

What's the topology? Which switch will have the internet connection? Will one of your networks be connected to the 4503 and the other network connect to the 3560? Is the internet handoff an ethernet connection? If so, what speed?

Thank you very much!