I am designing and evaluating a network for a medium sized company. i am only a beginner, any suggestions? there are 4 floors, several rooms on each floor. each room has about 15 machines, pentium 3 450, 17 inch monitors, 9gb hard drive, cdrom, 16mb sound card, 128 mb main memory. i need the network to run at a 100mb/s transfer time. i need to quote some kind of cost for the hardware. i need to suggest a topology and quote the network components used. what operating system do you suggest and why?
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Its simple question, but has long answer 
1. Begin with addressing.
Try to start groupin each floor then assign each group a subnet. Plus one subnet for all of your server.
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Divide to few small subnet simplify maintenance in the future.
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Put one 24 ports 10/100 HUB on each floor, to cover all 15 workstation and connectivity between each floor.
So, in your case you need at least 5x 24port 10/100 HUB. 1 for servers zone, and 4 on each floor.
Connect each workstation to the HUB and then assign ip on each workstation, thats all.
2. To choose operating system there are several things u should consider. Price, Easy to Maintain, Reliability, Durability etc. Every system administrator has different taste and different reason to choose.
regards,
Darmawan W. Anandita CCNA
Network/System Consultant
1. Begin with addressing.
Try to start groupin each floor then assign each group a subnet. Plus one subnet for all of your server.
====
Divide to few small subnet simplify maintenance in the future.
====
Put one 24 ports 10/100 HUB on each floor, to cover all 15 workstation and connectivity between each floor.
So, in your case you need at least 5x 24port 10/100 HUB. 1 for servers zone, and 4 on each floor.
Connect each workstation to the HUB and then assign ip on each workstation, thats all.
2. To choose operating system there are several things u should consider. Price, Easy to Maintain, Reliability, Durability etc. Every system administrator has different taste and different reason to choose.
regards,
Darmawan W. Anandita CCNA
Network/System Consultant
jimbopalmer
Programmer
While Darmawan calls them HUBs, (as I do to avoid confusion with my phone guy who calls PBXs switches) you really want switches. I would look for something stackable and would consider 1 gigabit uplink port.
All four floors would be wired to a patch panel on that floor, then into the switch.
Each switch would uplink straight to the server room.
I picked Netgear at random, 4 of these do not look bad
I am unclear how big your server room is, but here are typical 24 and 12 port master switches
I tried to remain child-like, all I acheived was childish.
All four floors would be wired to a patch panel on that floor, then into the switch.
Each switch would uplink straight to the server room.
I picked Netgear at random, 4 of these do not look bad
I am unclear how big your server room is, but here are typical 24 and 12 port master switches
I tried to remain child-like, all I acheived was childish.
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