- Jul 8, 2018
- 1
- 0
- 10
I have inherited a network from a colleague I used to work with, we suffer with very poor DSL speeds (2 down, 0.5 up as an average) and need to handle compressed video, multiple audio feeds (sometimes six/seven incoming audio connections, no outgoing) and some light FTP and other light data traffic. Too much for a single connection and all other methods to improve with it have failed. The way my colleague dealt with it before is to create six separate networks, six DSL routers, six IP bases and the like for each purpose (video is on x.x.3.x, audio on x.x.2.x, FTP on x.x.5.x, data on x.x.4.x etc). The issue there is that nothing can talk across the networks due to the IP addresses and subnet masks restricting access to only that one network, you then have to change IP address to gain access to another service and to me that does not feel right.
Device wise there is no more than 255 devices so it could all sit on one IP range easily, I just can't figure out in my head how to then deal with that practically - would you just specify the default gateway in some devices that needed to talk to the internet (some devices don't and are internal only) as the suitable router for that purpose? So say devices 192.168.1.10 - 192.168.1.20 could have the default gateway of 192.168.1.9 and then the next batch of ten have another default gateway (such as .1.8)? From my understanding the default gateway is how you get out of the subnet mask range (correct?) so for the devices in the .10 to .20 range then for them to get outside of the 255 address mask they call to the gateway?
Thanks for any ideas - this feels as though it should be simple but I am struggling to figure out a practical solution to it
Device wise there is no more than 255 devices so it could all sit on one IP range easily, I just can't figure out in my head how to then deal with that practically - would you just specify the default gateway in some devices that needed to talk to the internet (some devices don't and are internal only) as the suitable router for that purpose? So say devices 192.168.1.10 - 192.168.1.20 could have the default gateway of 192.168.1.9 and then the next batch of ten have another default gateway (such as .1.8)? From my understanding the default gateway is how you get out of the subnet mask range (correct?) so for the devices in the .10 to .20 range then for them to get outside of the 255 address mask they call to the gateway?
Thanks for any ideas - this feels as though it should be simple but I am struggling to figure out a practical solution to it
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram