Setting Up a New DHCP and Migrating Old Computers

Proseware, Inc., currently uses the 192.168.1.0 Class C network for 225
computers. The company wants to add another 200 new computers and
install a new DHCP server. Specifically, Proseware wants you to:
1. State which class you would use to optimize network settings for #1.
I would continue to use a C network for the new computers. The
simplest would be to configure the new DHCP server with new address.
There can be up to 2,097,151 class C networks and each network can
handle close to 254 computers.
2. State which commands and/or technologies you would use to
implement #2.
On the server computer, I would use resubnetting or use superscoping on the
DHCP scope or range to contain the new computers and adding the old:
Resub-netting:
Subnet Address: 192.168.1.0
Subnet Mask: 255.255.254.0 (changed 3rd Octet)
You now have a network of 510 hosts with addresses from 192.168.0.1 to
192.168.1.254 (for scope 192.168.0.0), or 256 newly available DHCP
addresses.

Before:
---------192.168.1.0/24----resub-------192.168.5.0/24---------

After:
---------192.168.0.0/23----resub-------192.168.5.0/24--------If you use the resubnetting option, you need to delete and re-create the DHCP scope
with the new subnet mask

Superscoping:

Superscoping or multinetting may meet your requirements. If Proseware did

not want me to change the subnetting of the network, I would add additional
logical networks to the same physical network as follows:
Subnet Address: 192.168.1.0 and 192.168.2.0
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
You now have two networks of 254 hosts (508 hosts total) with addresses
from 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.254 and 192.168.2.1 to 192.168.2.254, or
254 newly available DHCP addresses.
Before:
-----192.168.1.0/24------R-----192.168.5.0/24-------After:
-----192.168.1.0/24 and 192.168.2.0/24-----R-----192.168.5.0/24------

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