That's the whole point of the layer three switch. A layer three switch is a
router. Depending on the brand, you can have router interfaces on Ports and
either VLANs or virtual interfaces associated with a VLAN. All you have to
do is designate a VLAN for each department, assign the proper number of
ports for each department (or add a workgroup switch before your Layre-3
backbone switch) to that VLAN, assign each VLAN a router Interface on a
subnet of our choosing along with all the workstations, and set the IP
address of the router interface as the workstations default gateway. If all
need Internet, you'll also need a static route on your Internet gateway
router pointing back to the other networks via the layer-3 switch. Send me
an email, I'll draw you a picture.
....kurt
"bunto" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> hi, i am an internee in a network with almost 500 clients and 20
> servers of different types
> - the network is not subnetted and they are using a class B address for
> all the building and i am given a task to devise a plan to subnet all
> the departments.
>
> ------ we have 2 dns servers and no DHCP server , but we are planning
> to deploy DHCP as well
> ------ we have a layer 3 switch still boxed with almost 12 gig bit
> ports ...
> - the problem is that they all share the same servers with layer 2
> switches
> - and if i give them different subnet addresses then i have to assign
> all the ip addresses to every network card in every server (if its
> stupid then remember m an internee)
> - this way it will slow down the network
> - is there any other way to fix this other than assigning almost 15 ip
> addresses to every server ???
>
> waiting anxiously for a solution
>
> thanx in advance
>
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