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Yeah, I understand the DHCP helper service, but thanks for explaining NETbios. I was wondering if I'd need a WINS service in each VLAN if I didn't enable the WINS helper service. It makes perfect sense now you've explained it - I was getting myself confused :-) NETbios is actually one of my...

Thanks for the detailed reply. After doing lots of reading over the last week, that's pretty much how I've been thinking of approaching this, but I've only been brainstorming and didn't have a step by step plan. It's good to know I'm on the right track :-) We have 2 stacked 48 port 3Com 5500G...

Hi there I've inherited a LAN that's comprised of several hundred hosts in several /24 subnets, all mashed together into one big flat noisy network by way of a /16 subnet mask. There are a few sparsely used vlans, but most hosts are in vlan1. As you can imagine, it's almost grinding to a halt...

Hi there I've inherited a LAN comprised of many /24 subnets that are mashed into one huge collision domain using a /16 subnet mask. As you can imagine, broadcast traffic is crippling the LAN, and the core switch CPU is running at 85-100 percent utilisation. I'm looking for a text on best...