opnion on network

I'd like some opnions (and help) about a "solution" to an assignment i am
doing now.
I am primarily interested in how you would tackle the situation in a
professional environment,
rather than in a theoritical academic environment we are doing now (i have
a sneaky feeling that
our instructor lacks real world experience). We have a small university,
cosisting of 3 faculties (in three different buildings) each having about
300 workstations which need to networked; and a library with about 100
workstations.
The uni was able to just get six public addresses due to shortage of ip
addresses (IPv6 is not a choice).
The whole uni has to be networked, providing wireless access points
(WAPs), different servers (application, mail, web etc). The issues that
comes to my mind:

--I chose to put the different faculties & lib in different subnets and
put the ppl using WAPS in a differnt subnet. I thought that it would be
easier to administer than other option of putting the WAPs within the
subnets of the physical locations (ie WAP in faculty of commerce, within
the commerce subnet).

--Following on from above, should i use subnetting or supernetting? Since
each faculty already has 300 ws i could use several blocks of Block C
addresses and supernetting em or i could take the Block B private addrees
and through subnetting get a desired size subnet (on the process leaving a
huge number of subnets unused). Which would be the better option?

And, finally how would oyu use the six public Addresses that were given?

Thanks enourmously for any opinions,

ASiF


ASiF

ASiF wrote:

> I'd like some opnions (and help) about a "solution" to an assignment i am
> doing now.
> I am primarily interested in how you would tackle the situation in a
> professional environment,
> rather than in a theoritical academic environment we are doing now (i have
> a sneaky feeling that
> our instructor lacks real world experience). We have a small university,
> cosisting of 3 faculties (in three different buildings) each having about
> 300 workstations which need to networked; and a library with about 100
> workstations.
> The uni was able to just get six public addresses due to shortage of ip
> addresses (IPv6 is not a choice).
> The whole uni has to be networked, providing wireless access points
> (WAPs), different servers (application, mail, web etc). The issues that
> comes to my mind:
>
Looks like a good business for Cisco, and you can surely contact one of
their (or competing) representatives to make a network scenario/plan as
part of their offers. You talk about complete network infrastructure
(network cabinets, switches, cabling, routers, firewalls ...) for about
1000 workstations, some servers and - if you want to equip all 3 buildings
with wireless access - maybe 100 accesspoints.
For sure I would separate the wireless lan, due to security implications.
Wardriving is a too common sport, so it should go through a separate
authentication (radius server) and firewall.

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