Hello, I am studying to be a CCNA and have just about completed the 'basics' ie. switches,
routing, hubs, bridges, repeaters, osi, physical mediums etc. And I am struggling to
understand this exercise and need someone knowledgeable to help explain how this network
should be built and what certain things mean.

The exercise came with a building schematic with all the rooms for two floors, the 1st floor
is all shipping department and floor 2 is all the other departments. below is all the info
they gave.


Farb Software Development Ltd.

General software requirements:
All employees issued computers must have access to:
- Email
- Web browsing (to the internal website and to the internet)
- Word processing software
- Presentation software
- Calendar software

For individual departments:

Shipping:
- Access to UPS and FedEx shipping and tracking software (web-based)
- Inventory database

Tech support external:
- Access to bug-tracking database (web-based)

Marketing:
- Adobe Pagemaker
- Adobe Photoshop
- Macromedia Flash
- Professional Videoedit (edit)

Sales:
- Contact Manager databse

Accounting:
- Online accounting system
- Inventory database
- Equipment database

Tech support internal:
- Equipment database

Software Development:
- Microsoft c++
- Java
- Adobe Photoshop
- Macromedia Flash

note: the company is planning for expansion so their sales dept. will grow 35% and they will
also be developing 60% more software in the future.

There are seperate database servers for: software product inventory, equipment, bug tracking
and contact management. There are also the following servers: E-mail, internal website,
external website, DNS, DHCP, NAT and print servers.

Each department must be set up on its own subnet. All internal addressing is to be down
using private IP addressing using the Class A address 10.0.0.0 with the subnet mask
255.255.0.0. The company has been assigned a single class C black of addresses for access to
the internet (200.1.1.0). All devices that are accessed by more than one department must be
located on a single shared private subnet. Devices that need to be connected to the internet
must be on a subnet with public IP addresses. That subnet will have to be allocated from the
public addresses assigned to the company.

There is a power and network pole at each end of the cube section. The power and network
cables will be run seperately through the cube walls. The network cable runs can be shown
next to the cubes. Printers in an area or in a particular rooom can be treated as workgroup
printers, but everyone on the network needs convenient access to a printer. There should be
a few printers that are available for all employees.

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Where it says above 'All devices that are accessed by more than one department must be
located on a single shared private subnet'. Does that mean they are all on one subnet or
that each database machine is on its own subnet?

Now in the schematic there are rooms with just 4 computers and one printer, and the 'memo'
(above) says there will be print servers. So is a print server a computer that deals with
all the print jobs or is it an seperate device?

It says there will be DNS (domain name system) server(s) so will each department need one,
or will there only be one for the entire building?

The same goes for the DHCP server(s) will there be one for each subnet or one for all the
subnets? how does DHCP work?

What about the Network address translation server, is that a computer or built into a
device? will I need one for every subnet?

how many computers should I dedicate for the internal website? and external website?

what could you suggest for the email server setup?
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Dept. Room workstations printers workstations/printer


Soft. 2.1 6 0
dev. 2.2 1 1
2.3 6 2 3/1
2.4 0 0
2.5 6 2 3/1
2.6 4 1 4/1
2.7 0 0
2.8 1 0
2.9 0 0

int. 2.10 8 0
tech 2.11 1 1
supp. 2.12 1 1
2.13 1 1

ext. 2.17 8 2 4/1 4/1
tech
supp

acct 2.18 16 4 4/1 4/1 4/1 4/1

mktng 2.23 4 1
2.24 4 1
2.25 5 2 3/1 2/1
2.26 1 0

sales 2.30 11 1
2.31 0 0
2.32 1 1
2.33 0 0
2.34 1 0
2.35 6 0
Well any help or advice on this matter would be greatly appreciated, any suggestions are
welcome.

thanks,
Robert

AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

NOT THE DREADED CASE STUDY!!!

That assignment is such a joke...

Where it says above 'All devices that are accessed by more than one department must be
located on a single shared private subnet'. Does that mean they are all on one subnet or
that each database machine is on its own subnet?

All on one subnet

Now in the schematic there are rooms with just 4 computers and one printer, and the 'memo'
(above) says there will be print servers. So is a print server a computer that deals with
all the print jobs or is it an seperate device?

Either or.

It says there will be DNS (domain name system) server(s) so will each department need one,
or will there only be one for the entire building?

Actually, in a real scenerio you'd have 2, a primary and a secondary, for the whole building.

The same goes for the DHCP server(s) will there be one for each subnet or one for all the
subnets? how does DHCP work?

One for the building.

What about the Network address translation server, is that a computer or built into a
device? will I need one for every subnet?

NAT will be done on your border router.

how many computers should I dedicate for the internal website? and external website?

One, for both.

what could you suggest for the email server setup?

Uhh, a server... plugged into the network...

The only possible answer to such a *"&!!§!!* question.

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lol, I know that! I meant what software would you recommend

I'd be surprised if that was rellevant to your assignment.

But for arguements sake's I'd say qmail.