Help setting up 24 port switch for CS:GO Lan event

[h1ghf1v3]

Hello my small gaming company is hosting a CSGO event all proceeds going to charity. Now, I'm the owner of the store, but I don't know too much about computer networking. We have a high speed router, and I am going to the store later to buy a 24 port network switch for the 5v5 tournament, with a maximum of 20 people connected. Before I go on, the real issue I would like to address is how exactly I would set up the 24 port switch with the router so every player will all be on the same IP so they can connect to the same server. I tried this before and some people could not find the server, some people were on different IP's and some were on the correct IP.

The tournament will be hosted in 2 days so I need immediate help as soon as possible. I really appreciate the help as I really don't know what I'm doing here.

 

[bill001g]

If you buy a stupid unmanged switch it can't do much else other than hook all the users together. You hook it to a port on the router and in effect you added 23 ports to the router. The switch has no concept of IP or subnets or anything it is a dumb box that hooks everything together.

All the hard work is done by the router or your server. One of the other should be responsible for giving addresses to the users. If they need no access outside the building then I would not even attach it to a router let the server hand out the IP address.

 

[h1ghf1v3]

Does anyone else have some more information please? Maybe a guide for dummys?

 

[Kewlx25]

The simplest way would be to switch->Firewall/NAT->Internet Just like what you'd do at home.

 

[Alabalcho]

Does anyone else have some more information please? Maybe a guide for dummys?

As Bill suggested - get simplest unmanaged switch. Check your router - it has more free LAN ports, you might also use 8- and 16-port switches.

The hard work will be done by your router / server. Make sure the IP addresses assigned by the DHCP server are consistend with what you want to achieve. If you don't know what DHCP is, or who serves it - post here how your network looks like now.