Currently, the datashed’s VLAN setup is far from ideal:
- There are several VLANs that are no longer used or needed.
- I’d like to have out-of-band management stuff on VLAN ID #1 (the native VLAN). This is desirable in order to prevent management functions from being inaccessible in the case of VLAN database corruption.
- I’d like to begin using /16 blocks for the IPv4 addressing of internal subnets, instead of the current /24 blocks.
- I would like the second octet of each subnet to represent its VLAN ID (i.e., VLAN 5 would be 10.5.0.0/16). Obviously, I don’t currently intend to have more than 127 VLANs any time soon, although there are 4096 possible VLAN IDs in the basic standard.
- I consider this a prerequisite for my plans of implementing IPv6 internally (the network already implements full IPv6 on the Internet-facing side).
- I also consider this a prerequisite for setting up a VPN to allow internal network access from remote locations.
I am also trying to get two /29 blocks of public IPv4 addresses in addition to the existing /27 and /28 blocks (which will ultimately become /24 blocks, at the smallest). This will fix some routing problems I’m currently having.
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