Ok,
This is a lab question involving 4 routers, each at different locations. This business has
one public IPv4 IP address given which is 70.246.128.27/24. The author instructs the network engineer to create subnets for the 4 point-to-point connections between these 4 business locations. (I have an attached crude looking PDF outline I made using packet tracer).
First, I know there are many different ways that others can probably solve this problem. And although I appreciate many perspectives of what else should be done...I want to stick to trying to solve this lab in accordance with what the author asks for.
My question is: Is it possible to take this /24 public IP address and break it down into a /27 for VLSM...and still have each of the 4 locations still see the one public ip address? I thought of the /27 based on not only the 4 p2p connections, but also the 4 networks, for a total of 8 networks...thus the /27.
Am I way off base here?? Or am I on the right track?? And if I am going in the right direction, I simply can't figure out how to give each location these subnets without involving NAT and/or PAT....which the author does not say to use. The only hint he gives is to "break the given /24 mask into smaller subnets)
Any suggestions are GREATLY appreciated.
