setting up vlans

[Mehmet]

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I'm not going to pretend to know anything, I know nothing about how schools work, but seriously... if you need a larger address block then you need a larger address block... what do they want you to do exactly? If you subnet a /22 network and you're currently using 800 of those addresses then that doesn't give you much space for growth does it... and you don't want to have to redo the whole thing a year or two down the line. If you could run PAT you wouldn't have this problem, but I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't allow that!

[maark]

You can stick printers on a different subnet as they don't need to connect to the internet - they just need to communicate with your servers. This will free up a few addresses.

[sted]

VLANs won't necessarily solve your problem, you are seeing the effects of a problem, ie network slowdown, without finding the cause of the problem. May I suggest before you do anything you invest some time with Wireshark and figure out what is causing the problem. Shout on here if you need help analysing:)

 

youre right it wont and i think i found the problem today (im only there 3.5 hours a week the trunk to ict suite was in teh wrong port so only 100mb so was maxing out all the time hopefully thats cured it) But its been something ive been looking for an excuse to implement somewhere for a while granted not the best reason ever but atm im spending a lot of time bored hence the 200+ line vbs inventory script a while back i enjoy the challenges and atm am findin them few and far between (discounting pebkacs)

[Mehmet]

youre right it wont and i think i found the problem today (im only there 3.5 hours a week the trunk to ict suite was in teh wrong port so only 100mb so was maxing out all the time hopefully thats cured it) But its been something ive been looking for an excuse to implement somewhere for a while granted not the best reason ever but atm im spending a lot of time bored hence the 200+ line vbs inventory script a while back i enjoy the challenges and atm am findin them few and far between (discounting pebkacs)

 

Well done

[sted]

Well done

 

if that was the problem lol dont like changing too many things at once as yuo never know in future which one actually worked