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Bring an acquired company with overlapping addresses onto your routers

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The ticket

Your company (CORP) has bought a smaller firm (ACQ). Both use 10.1.0.0/16 internally. In three weeks ACQ staff move onto two floors at HQ and into one branch, and the business wants them productive on day one: their own servers reachable from both locations, internet access, and your shared DNS server 10.200.0.53. Renumbering ACQ will take about six months.

HQ has a core layer 3 switch (CORE1) and an internet edge router (EDGE1). The branch router BR1 connects to CORE1 over a Metro Ethernet circuit that carries 802.1Q tags. Your manager asks for a design that is safe now and does not block the later merger.

Gi0/0/0Gi0/0/1one VLAN per VRFMetro E with dot1QINETEDGE1SRV1DNS 10.200.0.53CORE1BR1branchCORPCORP 10.1.0.0/16ACQACQ 10.1.0.0/16

Book 4.4 Multiprotocol Label Switching

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How do you keep two copies of 10.1.0.0/16 apart on the same routers?