Professional network contractors have a belief that faculty health and students, well-being and environment morale have a noteworthy impact on the performance and learning experience of any learning institution.
As a network professional, I understand the following technical requirements for IT College. The IT College has leased a building in Melbourne Central Business District with aim of offering an academic ambient environment to IT students. The IT faculty should be able to transition from its old premises to the new premise seamlessly. The students and teaching staff and the management should have same experience or rather better experience as classes will be taking place in different locations within the campus.
Students, teaching staff and non-teaching staff should be able to print and communicate over the IP phones regardless of their location within the campus. We understand that there exists two buildings that have been leased and the distance separating them is 500 meters. A secure WAN technology will have to be implemented to interconnect the two buildings. In addition, it is well explained that there needs be a Wi-Fi access to only authorized users. Most importantly, all computers within the IT College need to communicate to each other. However, security factor has to be put in mind during the interconnection of these devices [1].
Network Diagram
[2] Proposed project Hardware Requirements
In this network design project for IT College, we propose the following networking hardware cables, connectors and network devices. We provide the component name, model, specifications and cost of per item. Justification is also included in the table to explain why a particular component is necessary in the network design.
|
Item name |
Vendor |
Specifications |
Cost per Item |
Justifications |
|
Firewall |
Cisco |
Cisco ASA 5510 |
2,875.00 |
The IT College administration stresses that security to the IT infrastructure is very important. The ASA Firewall will be deployed to filter both incoming and outgoing data packets |
|
Router |
Cisco |
Cisco 2900 |
518.93 |
Routers are essential for routing of packets from IT College to outside its network and from the outside networks to IT College network. |
|
UPS |
APC |
CyberPower CP1500AVRLCD – 900 Watt – 8.5 Ah |
149.99 |
IT College administration asked our network designing team to come up with a tactic that will ensure there is limited downtimes. We understand that Most of the down times are as a result of power faults. The UPS will be deployed to mitigate power losses. |
|
Switch |
Cisco |
Cisco Catalyst 6509-Edge Switch |
5,154.95 |
IT College has a number of nodes that have to be connected to the network. The switch will be used to extend the network, thus allowing IT College PCs access the network. |
|
Access Point |
Cisco |
AIR-CAP2602I-A-K9 |
7,235.49 |
Students and staff at IT College have acquired handheld computing devices. These devices access the network by the support of Wireless access-points. We will use access points to aid the wireless handheld devices access the network. |
|
Server |
HP |
HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 Server Windows Server 2012 64 Processor: Intel RAM: 64 GB Processor speed: 3.6 GHz |
9,399 |
Server is necessary to host services such as printing, email, active directory, DNS, DHCP and webserver. |
|
RJ-45 |
Cisco |
0.04 |
RJ-45 necessary to interlink the PCs and LAN |
|
|
STP cable |
Shielded Twisted Pair cable Cat 6 |
44 |
Cat 6 cable will be used for cable interconnecting from patch panel in to the wall for connection of personal computers. |
|
|
Access Point |
Cisco |
AIR-CAP2602I-A-K9 |
7,235.49 |
Students and staff at IT College have acquired handheld computing devices. These devices access the network by the support of Wireless access-points. We will use access points to aid the wireless handheld devices access the network. |
|
Personal Computers |
HP |
Processor speed: 2.8 GHz Windows 10 Professional 64 Processor: Intel Core i7 processor RAM: 4 Gb HP Desktop PCs |
809 |
Desktops for staff and students to enable them perform their duties. |
IP addressing
In this networking task, we assume the ISP provided address is 172.168.54.3. We sub this address as below
|
Location |
Required Size |
Network ID |
Address Usable Range |
Subnet Mask |
|
Building 1 |
300 |
172.168.54.0 |
172.168.54.1-172.168.55.254 |
255.255.254.0 |
|
Building 2 |
100 |
172.168.56.0 |
172.168.56.1-172.168.56.126 |
255.255.255.128 |
|
WAN |
2 |
172.168.56.128 |
172.168.56.129 -172.168.56.130 |
255.255.255.252 |
[4], [5]
Network Device Configurations
Switch>enable
Switch#confi terminal
Switch(config)#hostname Building1_Switch2
Building1_Switch2(config)#enable secret Password123
Building1_Switch2(config)#inter fa0/2
Building1_Switch2(config-if)#description Connection to Building1_Switch1
Building1_Switch2(config-if)#inter fa0/2
Building1_Switch2(config-if)#description Connection to Building1_Switch3
Building1_Switch2(config-if)#inter fa0/1
Building1_Switch2(config-if)#description Connection to Building1_Router
Building1_Switch2(config-if)#line conso 0
Building1_Switch2(config-line)#password Password123
Building1_Switch2(config-line)#login
Building1_Switch2(config-line)#logging synchronous
Building1_Switch2(config-line)#exit
Building1_Switch2(config)#line vty 0 15
Building1_Switch2(config-line)#password Password123
Building1_Switch2(config-line)#login
Building1_Switch2(config-line)#logging synchronous
Building1_Switch2(config-line)#exi
Building1_Switch2(config)#banner motd *Illegal Access to this Switch can lead to not Less than five years jail*
Building1_Switch2(config)#end
Building1_Switch2#copy run startup-config
Router configuration
Router>enable
Router#configu terminal
Router(config)#hostname B2_Router
B2_Router(config)#banner mot *Illegal Access to this Router can lead to not Less than five years jail.*
B2_Router(config)#line console 0
B2_Router(config-line)#password Password123
B2_Router(config-line)#login
B2_Router(config-line)#logging syn
B2_Router(config-line)#exi
B2_Router(config)#line vty 0 15
B2_Router(config-line)#password Password123
B2_Router(config-line)#login
B2_Router(config-line)#loggi sy
B2_Router(config-line)#exi
B2_Router(config)#servic password-encryption
B2_Router(config)#inter g0/0
B2_Router(config-if)#ip add 172.168.56.1 255.255.255.128
B2_Router(config-if)#description Connection to B2 LAN
B2_Router(config-if)#no shutd
B2_Router(config-if)#inter s0/0/0
B2_Router(config-if)#ip add 172.168.56.129 255.255.255.252
B2_Router(config-if)#no shu
B2_Router(config-if)#desc Connection to WAN
B2_Router(config-if)#
B2_Router(config-if)#router rip
B2_Router(config-router)#ver 2
B2_Router(config-router)#no auto
B2_Router(config-router)#network 172.168.56.0
B2_Router(config-router)#network 172.168.56.128
B2_Router(config-router)#end
B2_Router#copy run startup-config
B2_Router#
Building 1 router configuration
Router>enable
Router#configu terminal
Router(config)#hostname B1_Router
B1_Router(config)#banner mot *Illegal Access to this Router can lead to not Less than five years jail.*
B1_Router(config)#line console 0
B1_Router(config-line)#password Password123
B1_Router(config-line)#login
B1_Router(config-line)#logging syn
B1_Router(config-line)#exi
B1_Router(config)#line vty 0 15
B1_Router(config-line)#password Password123
B1_Router(config-line)#login
B1_Router(config-line)#loggi sy
B1_Router(config-line)#exi
B1_Router(config)#servic password-encryption
B1_Router(config)#inter g0/0
B1_Router(config-if)#ip add 172.168.54.1 255.255.254.0
B1_Router(config-if)#description Connection to B1 LAN
B1_Router(config-if)#no shutd
B1_Router(config-if)#inter s0/0/0
B1_Router(config-if)#ip add 172.168.56.130 255.255.255.252
B1_Router(config-if)#no shu
B1_Router(config-if)#desc Connection to WAN
B1_Router(config-if)#
B1_Router(config-if)#router rip
B1_Router(config-router)#ver 2
B1_Router(config-router)#no auto
B1_Router(config-router)#network 172.168.54.0
B1_Router(config-router)#network 172.168.56.128
B1_Router(config-router)#end
B1_Router#copy run startup-config
B1_Router#
Demonstration of Configured devices
B1_Router#sho ip pro
Routing Protocol is “rip”
Redistributing: rip
Default version control: send version 2, receive 2
Automatic network summarization is not in effect
Routing for Networks:
172.168.0.0
Gateway Distance Last Update
172.168.56.129 120 00:00:26
B1_Router#sho ip inter brie
GigabitEthernet0/0 172.168.54.1 YES manual up up
Serial0/0/0 172.168.56.130 YES manual up up
B1_Router#
Showing router running configuration
B1_Router#sho run
service password-encryption
hostname B1_Router
interface GigabitEthernet0/0
description Connection to B1 LAN
ip address 172.168.54.1 255.255.254.0
duplex auto
speed auto
interface Serial0/0/0
description Connection to WAN
ip address 172.168.56.130 255.255.255.252
clock rate 2000000
router rip
version 2
network 172.168.0.0
no auto-summary
banner motd ^CIllegal Access to this Router can lead to not Less than five years jail.^C
line con 0
password 7 08114D5D1A0E0A05165A5E57
logging synchronous
login
line vty 0 4
password 7 08114D5D1A0E0A05165A5E57
logging synchronous
login
line vty 5 15
password 7 08114D5D1A0E0A05165A5E57
logging synchronous
login
end
Showing switch running configuration
Building1_Switch2#sho run
hostname Building1_Switch2
enable secret 5 $1$mERr$.BrRDesuFU8RK.mmc0xze0
spanning-tree mode pvst
interface FastEthernet0/1
description Connection to Building1_Router
interface FastEthernet0/2
description Connection to Building1_Switch3
banner motd ^CIllegal Access to this Switch can lead to not Less than five years jail^C
line con 0
password Password123
logging synchronous
login
line vty 0 4
password Password123
logging synchronous
login
line vty 5 15
password Password123
logging synchronous
login
Building1_Switch2#
Ping Results
References
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[1] |
Bragg, Network Security: The Complete Reference, Pennsylvania Plaza New York City: McGraw Hill Professional, 2012. |
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[2] |
J. Ding, Advances in Network Management, 2nd ed., Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2016 . |
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[3] |
S. Anthony, Interconnecting Cisco Network Devices, Part 1 (ICND1) Foundation Learning, Hoboken: Cisco Press, 2013. |
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[4] |
T. Lammle, Subnetting, Hoboken: Wiley, 2017. |
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[5] |
C. N. Academy, Routing and Switching Essentials Companion Guide: Rout Swit Esse Comp Guid, Indiana Polis: Cisco Press, 2014. |
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