I am trying to test some things for work and am looking for some assistance. We are currently running out of IP addresses on our 255.255.255.0 subnet. The boss was asking if we could do something similar to the structure below:
LAN 1 - 192.168.1.x/255.255.255.0 (Server LAN)
LAN 2 - 192.168.2.x/255.255.255.0 (Zone 1 LAN)
LAN 3 - 192.168.3.x/255.255.255.0 (Zone 2 LAN)
LAN 4 - 192.168.4.x/255.255.255.0 (Zone 3 LAN)
I set up a 2012 server on LAN 1 and set up routing for testing (server has single network connection with an IP in each range). This seemed to allow all computers on all the various LAN's to communicate, but for some reason the servers cannot access devices (e.g. NAS, PLC ect). Additional information:
- All devices are on the same physical network
- They DO NOT want to open the subnet mask
- Network will contain Computers, Servers, NAS, Printers and Various devices (PLC, Comms, IO ect)
So, can I achieve what we are trying to do with Server 2012 routing? Are there better options to achieve this? Software solution VS hardware solution?
All this is fairly new to me and at this stage just playing around to see what solutions i can come up with. My test enviroment is a ESXi Server with some VM's with access to my main network (192.168.1.x) for testing devices.