How to increase our IP range 1

[jonoflordevida]

We have a Sat internet connection with 12 assigned IP´s and need to increase our number of users. Is there a way to subnet privately each of these IP´s? Sorry if it´s a dumb question but I´m new to this!

 

[KiscoKid]

Where you can, try and use private IP address space as you can allocate as much of this you want.

This, combined with NAT (Network Address Translation), is a successful method you can use to scale your network to 10000's of users whilst only using a small handful of public IP addresses.

 

[jonoflordevida]

Thanks Kisco, How do I set up NAT with our star pro unit?

 

[KiscoKid]

Unfortunately I'm not too familiar with their products. I did have a quick look at their website and couldn't see any mention on NAT support on their Star Pro product.

Do you have a firewall at the edge of your network? If so, this should be able to support NAT.

 

[jonoflordevida]

Hi, We rely on individual firewalls on each PC. We dont have a server set up just a hub Wi Fi´d out and office LAN. I did look up NAT software so it looks like we need to set up a server between the Star Pro unit and our network running NAT and firewall? Sound good or is there a simpler way? The star pro supports telnet but not NAT as far as I can tell. Thanks for the support

 

[cyberspace]

So are the hosts on your network just attached to a hub for resource sharing but each individual machine connects to the internet wirelessly? Or is there a point in your network which the host connect to wirelessly which in turn is connected to the satellite?

You could use another machine yes - that could be set up with appropriate software and then issue private IP addresses to hosts via DHCP or they could be assigned statically. This way you only actually need one public ip, when the PCs are communicating over the internet, NAT will handle the process by converting the private internal address to the public address and vice versa.

'When all else fails.......read the manual'

 

[jonoflordevida]

Thanks cyberspace , I´ve studied at length the possibilities and I believe the best for us is a NAT router wih firewall. We can link the office private network to this and the Wi Fi radio for our clients to access. This will give us enough IP range via NAT and control over the network via the internal software. I considered a server and software but you know PC´s they break! cheers

 

[cyberspace]

The router was going to be my other suggestion but then I wasnt sure if there was a physical link for your connection!

Seems the best idea

'When all else fails.......read the manual'