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kanfa
Jun 22, 2015Aspirant
SRX5308 - Multi-homing / Connecting subnets
Hi! I've reached the point where I've exhausted my primary DHCP scope (e.g. 10.10.10.x) and need to create a secondary scope (10.10.11.x). DHCP is handled by the server, and a superscope has been conf...
fordem
Jun 22, 2015Mentor
Have you, by any chance, configured VLANs on that SRX? In my experience, just configuring the "multi-homing" allows communication between the subnets. If you have configured VLANs, you need to enable interVLAN routing.
You can also try creating a static router - which in my opinion should not be necessary, as soon as you add the secondary address, the router should automatically "learn" the routes to directly connected networks.
A few more points ...
First - you're using a class a private address range, it's theoretically impossible to exhaust the DHCP scope, assuming it has been properly configured, a class a network can have over 16 Million hosts, and there would be no need for supernetting.
Second - how are you trying to reach the servers? Have you tried pinging them by ip address? If you subnet a class a down to a class c, which is what I suspect you are doing, you may run into an issue where NetBEUI name resolution fails because they can no longer communicate with each other via broadcasts.
There comes a point when it becomes necessary to really understand how a network functions, and when you have more than 254 hosts on a single LAN, I think you're long past that point. Allowing a small network to just grow rather than planning for that growth is a ticking "time bomb", either seriously consider getting some networking education, or hiring someone who already has.
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