Technical Requirements

Professional network contractors have a belief that faculty health and students, well-being and environment morale have a noteworthy impact on the performance and learning experience of any learning institution.

As a network professional, I understand the following technical requirements for IT College. The IT College has leased a building in Melbourne Central Business District with aim of offering an academic ambient environment to IT students. The IT faculty should be able to transition from its old premises to the new premise seamlessly. The students and teaching staff and the management should have same experience or rather better experience as classes will be taking place in different locations within the campus.

Students, teaching staff and non-teaching staff should be able to print and communicate over the IP phones regardless of their location within the campus. We understand that there exists two buildings that have been leased and the distance separating them is 500 meters. A secure WAN technology will have to be implemented to interconnect the two buildings. In addition, it is well explained that there needs be a Wi-Fi access to only authorized users. Most importantly, all computers within the IT College need to communicate to each other. However, security factor has to be put in mind during the interconnection of these devices [1].

Network Diagram

[2] Proposed project Hardware Requirements  

In this network design project for IT College, we propose the following networking hardware cables, connectors and network devices. We provide the component name, model, specifications and cost of per item. Justification is also included in the table to explain why a particular component is necessary in the network design.

IP addressing

In this networking task, we assume the ISP provided address is 172.168.54.3. We sub this address as below

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Network Device Configurations

Switch>enable

Switch#confi terminal

Switch(config)#hostname Building1_Switch2

Building1_Switch2(config)#enable secret Password123

Building1_Switch2(config)#inter fa0/2

Building1_Switch2(config-if)#description Connection to Building1_Switch1

Building1_Switch2(config-if)#inter fa0/2

Building1_Switch2(config-if)#description Connection to Building1_Switch3

Building1_Switch2(config-if)#inter fa0/1

Building1_Switch2(config-if)#description Connection to Building1_Router

Building1_Switch2(config-if)#line conso 0

Building1_Switch2(config-line)#password Password123

Building1_Switch2(config-line)#login

Building1_Switch2(config-line)#logging synchronous

Building1_Switch2(config-line)#exit

Building1_Switch2(config)#line vty 0 15

Building1_Switch2(config-line)#password Password123

Building1_Switch2(config-line)#login

Building1_Switch2(config-line)#logging synchronous

Building1_Switch2(config-line)#exi

Building1_Switch2(config)#banner motd *Illegal Access to this Switch can lead to not Less than five years jail*

Building1_Switch2(config)#end

Building1_Switch2#copy run startup-config

Router configuration

Router>enable

Router#configu terminal

Router(config)#hostname B2_Router

B2_Router(config)#banner mot *Illegal Access to this Router can lead to not Less than five years jail.*

B2_Router(config)#line console 0

B2_Router(config-line)#password Password123

B2_Router(config-line)#login

B2_Router(config-line)#logging syn

B2_Router(config-line)#exi

B2_Router(config)#line vty 0 15

B2_Router(config-line)#password Password123

B2_Router(config-line)#login

B2_Router(config-line)#loggi sy

B2_Router(config-line)#exi

B2_Router(config)#servic password-encryption

B2_Router(config)#inter g0/0

B2_Router(config-if)#ip add 172.168.56.1 255.255.255.128

B2_Router(config-if)#description Connection to B2 LAN

B2_Router(config-if)#no shutd

B2_Router(config-if)#inter s0/0/0

B2_Router(config-if)#ip add 172.168.56.129 255.255.255.252

B2_Router(config-if)#no shu

B2_Router(config-if)#desc Connection to WAN

B2_Router(config-if)#

B2_Router(config-if)#router rip

B2_Router(config-router)#ver 2

B2_Router(config-router)#no auto

B2_Router(config-router)#network 172.168.56.0

B2_Router(config-router)#network 172.168.56.128

B2_Router(config-router)#end

B2_Router#copy run startup-config

B2_Router#

Building 1 router configuration

Router>enable

Router#configu terminal

Router(config)#hostname B1_Router

B1_Router(config)#banner mot *Illegal Access to this Router can lead to not Less than five years jail.*

B1_Router(config)#line console 0

B1_Router(config-line)#password Password123

B1_Router(config-line)#login

B1_Router(config-line)#logging syn

B1_Router(config-line)#exi

B1_Router(config)#line vty 0 15

B1_Router(config-line)#password Password123

B1_Router(config-line)#login

B1_Router(config-line)#loggi sy

B1_Router(config-line)#exi

B1_Router(config)#servic password-encryption

B1_Router(config)#inter g0/0

B1_Router(config-if)#ip add 172.168.54.1 255.255.254.0

B1_Router(config-if)#description Connection to B1 LAN

B1_Router(config-if)#no shutd

B1_Router(config-if)#inter s0/0/0

B1_Router(config-if)#ip add 172.168.56.130 255.255.255.252

B1_Router(config-if)#no shu

B1_Router(config-if)#desc Connection to WAN

B1_Router(config-if)#

B1_Router(config-if)#router rip

B1_Router(config-router)#ver 2

B1_Router(config-router)#no auto

B1_Router(config-router)#network 172.168.54.0

B1_Router(config-router)#network 172.168.56.128

B1_Router(config-router)#end

B1_Router#copy run startup-config

B1_Router#

Demonstration of Configured devices

1. Showing routing protocols

B1_Router#sho ip pro

Routing Protocol is “rip”

Redistributing: rip

Default version control: send version 2, receive 2

Automatic network summarization is not in effect

Routing for Networks:

172.168.0.0

Gateway Distance Last Update

172.168.56.129 120 00:00:26

1. Showing router interfaces

B1_Router#sho ip inter brie

GigabitEthernet0/0 172.168.54.1 YES manual up up

Serial0/0/0 172.168.56.130 YES manual up up

B1_Router#

Showing router running configuration

B1_Router#sho run

service password-encryption

hostname B1_Router

interface GigabitEthernet0/0

description Connection to B1 LAN

ip address 172.168.54.1 255.255.254.0

duplex auto

speed auto

interface Serial0/0/0

description Connection to WAN

ip address 172.168.56.130 255.255.255.252

clock rate 2000000

router rip

version 2

network 172.168.0.0

no auto-summary

banner motd ^CIllegal Access to this Router can lead to not Less than five years jail.^C

line con 0

password 7 08114D5D1A0E0A05165A5E57

logging synchronous

login

line vty 0 4

password 7 08114D5D1A0E0A05165A5E57

logging synchronous

login

line vty 5 15

password 7 08114D5D1A0E0A05165A5E57

logging synchronous

login

end

Showing switch running configuration

Building1_Switch2#sho run

hostname Building1_Switch2

enable secret 5 $1$mERr$.BrRDesuFU8RK.mmc0xze0

spanning-tree mode pvst

interface FastEthernet0/1

description Connection to Building1_Router

interface FastEthernet0/2

description Connection to Building1_Switch3

banner motd ^CIllegal Access to this Switch can lead to not Less than five years jail^C

line con 0

password Password123

logging synchronous

login

line vty 0 4

password Password123

logging synchronous

login

line vty 5 15

password Password123

logging synchronous

login

Building1_Switch2# 

Ping Results

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