Increasing available IP address on Windows SBS 2011 Stand
Hello all. We have a small - Windows SBS 2011 Standard - network at a church using most of the 240 IP scope I've set up, internally. Currently at 192.168.0.1 (router IP) and 192.168.0.3 being server and DNS. We have several really large events here on campus - 1500 to 2500 attendees every year, with the majority of those attendees hitting the internet during the event. Obviously I'm running out of IP's. What is the easiest way for me to increase available IP's? I have all printers setup with reservations via MAC on the server. Everything thing else other than the router, is all DHCP.
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Unfortunately most of the users for those events (concerts) are hitting the internet via the 2 WAP's I have in place. Would I have to have routers/WAP's that require the ability to handle multiple IP configurations?
So I would change the subnet to 255.255.252.0?
So I would change the subnet to 255.255.252.0?
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Thanks for your solution! I believe that will work best for us!
What I forgot to mention, but maybe you know, the network will look something like this after the subnetmask change:
Network Broadcast Address
from to
192.168.0.0 192.168.0.1 192.168.15.254 192.168.15.255
Network Broadcast Address
from to
192.168.0.0 192.168.0.1 192.168.15.254 192.168.15.255
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Got it...Thanks!
I'm just wondering if that SBS server can handle the load though, though maybe not all 1500 will be hitting the Internet and using the DHCP/DNS of that server?
Could you set up a separate network for the events, kinda like a guest network, with separate routers and such (wifi or other)??