The low-level design's IP addressing table assigns a separate /24 subnet to each ward floor rather than one large subnet for the whole building. What implication does this design decision have for implementation that the technician should recognize?
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Short Explanation
Give each floor its own /24 and you're really saying "each floor gets its own room," not one giant open floor plan. That means each floor needs its own VLAN and its own gateway so devices actually land in the right room. It's a small line in an addressing table, but it drives real work at implementation time.
Full Explanation
An addressing table that splits a building into per-floor /24 subnets is telling the implementer, in effect, that each floor is intended to be its own Layer 3 segment. To make that real, each floor needs a corresponding VLAN carrying that subnet's traffic and a matching gateway (typically an SVI on the aggregation or distribution switch) configured with the correct subnet address. Claiming all floors share one broadcast domain contradicts the very reason for separate subnets — broadcast domains are contained per subnet precisely so a broadcast storm or ARP flood on one floor doesn't spill into the others. Concluding that no VLANs are needed misunderstands the relationship between IP subnets and VLANs in a switched campus network; a distinct subnet plan is exactly the kind of detail that drives VLAN design, not the absence of it. Nothing in a per-floor addressing scheme mandates static IP addressing either — DHCP scopes can be, and typically are, matched one-to-one with these subnets so each floor still gets dynamic addressing within its own range. When implementing against a design like this, the technician should verify that the VLAN-to-subnet mapping is documented consistently across the addressing table, the VLAN table, and the switch port assignments, since a mismatch between any of these three is one of the more common sources of a device landing on the wrong network after cutover.