Out of IP's

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I have about 265 users now - so I ran out of IP in the range of
192.168.250.0 - now I want to I have 192.168.251.0 subnet -

I have two servers:
Server 1 - AD/Exchange 2003
Server 2 - File Server / App Server
Both have one NICS

How can I implement the second subnet I want and have routing?

Any ideas greatly appreciated - thx
 
You'd be better off moving to something like a class A subnet which will
support tens of thousands of clients, unless you need to seperate the
clients into subnets. If that's the case, you'll need to put a hardware
router in, and possibly multi-home the servers.

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JD says...
I have about 265 users now - so I ran out of IP in the range of
192.168.250.0 - now I want to I have 192.168.251.0 subnet -

I have two servers:
Server 1 - AD/Exchange 2003
Server 2 - File Server / App Server
Both have one NICS

How can I implement the second subnet I want and have routing?

Any ideas greatly appreciated - thx
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Hello JD,

if you are not using switches between your clients and/or having
problems with network traffic, you need to separate your network
physically by getting a router, connect it to two different hubs or
switches and run those subnets separately (one IP-subnet on the one
end, the other on the other end of the router).
Instead of getting a router you might be able to use a multi-homed
Server which does the routing for you - however this usually introduces
more problems than using a hardware router.

If you do not have problems with the network bandwith yet, and therefor
do not need to separate into different subnets b/c of the traffic, you
can just change your network subnetmask to something between a 16-bit
and a 24-bit (what you use right now) mask, e.g. 255.255.0.0 or
255.255.240.0.

Following your IPs, using 255.255.0.0 will treat all IPs from
192.168.0.1 to 192.168.255.254 as one subnet, using 255.255.240.0 will
treat all IPs from 192.168.240.1 to 192.168.255.254 as one subnet.

Note: those are just examples - calculate your subnets as needed, and
don't forget to change the IP settings on server and clientsside.
 
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