<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Hey Folk,</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> I
have an increasing situation that I'm looking to be proactive about. I
have a class C internal network at our office here, that due to growth
is running out of IPs, it's a 192.168.x.0/24 situation. I've come
up with two possible solutions, fell free to suggest others, it doesn't
have to be a free solution, just production quality.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">1. Drop the subnet mast to 255.255.252.0
or less, This gives me more IPs, and makes no physical changes to the network,
but requires me to reconfigure 250+ pcs, servers, VPNs, VPN routes on remote
sites, ect. This is not really desirable. </font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">2. Create a new 192.168.(x+1).0 subnet
on a separate physical network and bridge the two with a router. All
new network drops would get plugged into this subnet.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> The
second solution is more appealing to me as it doesn't require changing
all the existing devices, except adding a route to a firewall or two. The
problem is I don't think I'm looking at a Cisco router in this situation,
I would want probably 2 GB interfaces one for the existing subnet and one
for the new and just have it route between the two, I don't want any packet
filtering, firewalling, ect. Just simple static routing. I don't seem to
find GB ethernet in the cisco routers unless you buy something modular
and add cards, then It has way too many features l don't need and starts
to get pricey. I know I can do the same with a Linux box with 2 cheap GB
cards, even with an out of the box Red Hat dist. There used to be
a Linux Router Project but looks like it's no longer maintained. </font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Is
anyone had a similar situation? How have you handled it. Is there a better
router / hardware device that I don't know of that does what I want?</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Thanks</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Justin</font>
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