LAN Networking question
away so we'll be subletting suites to potentially as many as
five subletters.
The suites in our office all have their own ethernet jacks;
22 cables (after a day rewiring the basement) pop up through the
floor in our server room. Each suite has a single network
jack -- our area (plus common areas) has 17.
We want to bundle Internet access with the suites, but we want
to make sure that the subletters' networks stay separate from
each other and us. At this point, we don't know whether we'll
have 5 separate subletters in the 5 available suites, or if one
subletter will take more than one.
Our Internet feed comes in from a Cisco 3640 via ethernet from
an office upstairs (they handle the BGP4 routing and port blocking).
Our tentative plan is a lower-end Cisco router to handle NAT and a VLAN-capable switch to separate the networks. Another option
would be a Linux box with 6 network cards as a gateway server
and a non-managed switch for our area.
We need to monitor bandwidth utilization of our subletters of
course.
Opinions?
--J
