Drew Tadgerson Networking Concepts & Apps Mini Case 2 Central University MIS589 February 3, 2013 Shaun Gray

II. Central University Suppose you are the network manager for Central University, a medium-size university with 13,000 students. The university has 10 separate colleges (e.g., business, arts, journalism), 3 of which are relatively large (300 faculty and staff members, 2,000 students, and 3 buildings) and 7 of which are relatively small (200 faculty and staff, 1,000 students, and 1 building). In addition, there are another 2,000 staff members who work in various administration departments (e.g., library, maintenance, finance) spread over another 10 buildings. There are 4 residence halls that house a total of 2,000 students. Suppose the university has the 128.100.xxx.xxx address range on the Internet. How would you assign the IP addresses to the various subnets? How would you control the process by which IP addresses are assigned to individual computers? You will have to make some assumptions to answer both questions, so be sure to state your assumptions.

As a network manager, I would assign the IP addresses to various subnets by associating a subnet base address with each physical network. Then I would sequentially assign hosts particular IP addresses within the subnet. Determining host addresses is really quite simple, once we know the subnet address. You should be able to substitute the numbers for the host ID bits in the subnet address. Then convert the address to decimal form. By controlling which IP addresses assigned to the individual computer, you must make sure you assign it one of the IP addresses your provider gave you; assign it the net mask your provider gave you; and assign it a gateway, which is the IP address of your router When setting up a router, you: assign it the IP address, in the range, your provider gave you; assign it the net mask your provider gave you; tell it the IP address of your ISP's router, which is the machine it needs to talk to; tell it how to dial to get to your ISP's router.

Assumptions: Very Few Student resources that require access control based on IP addresses. Very Few Faculty/staff resources that require access control based on IP addresses. Very Few College resources that require access control based on IP addresses. Total Staff/Faculty ~ 2500 plan for growth to 3000 Total Students ~ 5000 plan for growth to 6000 Access Control to resources via Login/Password Plan: IP Addresses where the 3rd Octet is less than 3 digits will be reserved for Static assignments. IP Addresses where the 3rd Octet is less than 50 will be reserved for Server and other peripheral device assignments (Printers, WAP, VOIP, routers, etc.) IP Addresses where the 3rd Octet is 1xx value are for University owned Faculty/Staff computers IP Addresses where the 3rd Octet is 2xx value are for computers that are used by the students regardless of whether they are University owned/maintained or if they are student/private owned/maintained and will be heavily firewalled.

Set up a new private network (say in the 162.16.xxx.xxx range) for those not requiring access from outside. Use a DCHP server to auto-assign IPs to the workstations. You can have the DCHP server configure the workstations virtually any way you want including: - Based on MAC Address - Based on Location - Based on Time of Day

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