Creating the baseline network pt1

The first part we needed to decide upon and create was the physical topology & accompanying addressing scheme.

Using the 10.0.0.0/8 addressing block:

Students: 10.2.0.1 - 10.3.255.254 /15

Academic Staff + WLAN: 10.1.0.1 - 10.1.255.254 /16

Registry: 10.0.0.1 - 10.0.0.126 /25

Payroll: 10.0.0.129 - 10.0.0.254 /25

Management: 10.0.2.1 - 10.0.3.254 /23

Guest WLAN: 10.100.0.1 - 10.100.255.254 /16

With the hardware available to us in the network room, we decided to primarily utilize layer 3 switches for our backbone (core/distribution). This was due to the fact that these switches were both able to do routing (like a router) and the amount of fast Ethernet ports (24) in comparison to the typical (2) on a router. This is both cost effective and still provides good performance.

BAS="Building 'A' Switch" CENS="Central Switch" BBS="Building 'B' Switch"

For each of the two buildings in our network, there'll be two switches at the core. For redundancy, there are multiple connections between each switch. The central switches will then have connections to two routers, one as a backup connection.