Hi, Mr. Video.
1. You say there is a "main" network with one router on, does the router route only between your LAN and the Internet, or is it only routing traffic between different IP subnets?
Only Lan and Internet. There is also a Firebox on that aspect of the LAN
2. What makes what you call your "subnetwork" a subnetwork, is it a true IP subnetwork with a different class c address or a netmask, or do you just mean a layer 2 ethernet bridge/switcb or two? Give an example of a server ip and camera ip and printer ip.
The main Lan is 10.11.X.X net mask 255.255.255.0
The camera network is 192.168.x.x
Both servers have a dual NIC's and the both mhave addressing 10.11.x.x and 192.168.x.x on each of the NIC's
3. You say that the cameras have a different default gateway than the printers. But if you only have one router and you are using that to get to the internet then you would only have one ip to use as your default gateway, not two. Give example of the two different gateway values.
The "default gateway" ion the cameras and server NIC is just for consistency, there is a Layer 2 swicth on the building where some of the cameras are hosted.
The reason to leave the gateway blank if possible was to stop the printer from being able to talk to another subnet.
- wouldn't that be prevented by having a default gateway as opposed to not? Also would DNS settings on the cameras have any issues?
Thx