What's required to enable communication between two IP ranges located behind one switch?

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Published on 2010-06-01T14:45:37Z Indexed on 2010/06/01 14:54 UTC
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Within our co-located networking closet, we have control over two ranges of 254 addresses, e.g. 64.123.45.0/24 and 65.234.56.0/24. The problem is, if a host has only one IP address, or a block of addresses in only one range, it can't contact any of the addresses in the other subnet.

  • All of our hosts use our hosting provider's respective gateway, e.g. 64.123.45.1 or 65.234.56.1
  • A host on the 64.123.45.0/24 range can contact the 65.234.56.1 gateway and vice-versa
  • Everything in our closet is connected to an HP ProCurve 2810 (a Layer 2-only switch), which connects through a Juniper NetScreen-25 firewall to the outside world

What can I do to enable communication between the two ranges? Is there some settings I can change, or do I need better networking equipment?

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