This is a repost of an earlyer question, i have made some additional point that i could use some assistance on. If this breaks TOS then please let me know.
My company is expanding rapidly to include a 2nd building some 50 feet away from our present 1. In order to achieve some seperation between the 2 buildings to avoid bottlenecks and so on this new building we be operating as a 2nd site on a subnet.
The network will be extended with a 100Base-T LAN extender.
Great!
This is where i get a little Hazy, i have decided to give the site a seperate ADSL line to the outside world and a seperate File/Print server (again reducing cross network traffic) [b]But but how do i actually assign new hardware to this subnet[/b]
Am i making sense here?
I am just a little bit hazy on how i can seperate this subnet and how i can assign things to it. MS books online arnt really helping
I have a 10Meg LAN extenstion connecting the 2 sites, so i want to limmit traffic between the 2 if possible, hence having a dedicated print server over there.
DNS and DHCP dont use a lot of bandwidth (right?) so they can both be left hosted at the original site, but could email put a strain on bandwidth? considering around 2Meg of that will be used by VOIP.
What would be the best way in your opinion to ensure nwetork traffic is kept to a minimum between the sites?
Are Managed switches nesercary?
Or can i avoid cross building traffic by simply not giving packets any reason to cross over?
Thanks again