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Creating a college network???

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  • 17-11-2004 5:00pm
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    Kiith
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    i'm doing a project for college, in which we have to set up a large network in a college. there is supposed to be 5 seperate buildings, with a total of 325 computers. now, i'm a bit screwed in this, since i can't find any decent notes or sites for this. there's loads on setting up a small network, but not much to this scale. Anyone know of any sites or resources that i could use. Any help would be appreciated.


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    aidan_walsh
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    Its pretty much the same principal, I should think, just applied to a larger scale. You'll need to consider how you are going to arrange the computers, forms of logical segmenting (if any), etc.


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    Capt'n Midnight
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    You have a LAN in each building all computers on the same SUBNET

    You have a WAN between buildings using ROUTERS to keep local traffic local.

    One point connects to the internet and you have a firewall there.

    Servers can be central or local depending on how much data / who needs to see it..


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    jack_christie
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    loads of stuff on 3com.com, cisco.com etc

    try search the cisco site with *.ppt, for useful diagrams

    IP Subnet Calculator might be useful:
    http://www.wildpackets.com/products/ipsubnetcalculator

    I know the layout in one college is the main big switches are connected by a fibre backbone, off site localcations connected by leased lines. Then just connect smaller switches from the main switches to the class rooms. Shove in a few firewalls and bobs ur uncle.

    JC


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