Office network setup - best solution

[SaigonK]

So I am setting up a network in an office, they have one side of the building that is all the office people, the other side is a training room.

Both sides need access to the internet but i would like to limit some access to each room.


OFFICE AREA: 8 systems - One Windows 2000 server
TRAINING AREA: 10 systems to start - up to 30 later.


I was thinking maybe i could setup two internal subnets?


So office area would be 172.21.0.x IP's right form the router.
While the training area could be 10.0.0x ip's and use the router as a gateway to the internet...

10.0.0.2 - 255.255.255.0 - 192.168.1.1 as a gateway? Sound right or unrealistic?
172.21.0.2 - 255.255.255.0 - 192.168.1.1 ? ? ?

Maybe something like this:
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[ScottMac]

A gateway has to be on the same subnet/network as the host. So, if the PC's address is 192.168.1.1, the gateway would be on the 192.168.1.0 network right along with it.

If the network is 10.20.30.0/24 then the gateway must be on the 10.20.30.0/24 network too - that's why it's a gateway -- the local address used to route traffic off-LAN --

Good Luck

Scott

 

[SaigonK]

yes but if i am going through a router that does NAT...coudlnt it be the gateway ?

 

[ktwebb]

Yeah it can. As long at's it's IP address is on the same subnet as the segment of the LAN your trying to route internet traffic to/from. In other words, see ScottMac's post.