I am a student and have a project that involves planning an installation of a networking system. The diagram needs to include the cable drops as well as the type of equipment being installed. I know that this will be server based to run Windows NT, there will be 15 connections (10 desktops and 5 laptops). Raid level 5 will be required as well as RAS. Can anyone help me?
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yardshaker
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Sounds like a great project. I am also a student(graduating in Dec)and I wish I had been given a few projects like this instead of the hours of c/c++ programming. Are you just looking for the graphical depiction of the LAN or are you actually coming up with a proposal and a detailed itinerary for the install?
Wouldn't helping you with this project be like us giving you the answers on a test? Would you learn anything? Just kidding. E-mail me at <A HREF="mailto:jsauce@net1plus.com">jsauce@net1plus.com</A> or ICQ me at 3287200 and I'll try and give you a little help. I don't want to type out tons of stuff as it will just make this page take forever to load. <p>John D. Saucier<br><a href=mailto:jsauce@net1plus.com>jsauce@net1plus.com</a><br><a href= Backup</a><br>
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Thank you for your quick response to my problem. I have to come up with a proposal for the purchase and installation and my budget is only $30,000. The server is going to have to perform basically all the functions (data, e-mail, etc). After talking to my instructor I have a better idea of who to show the cable runs from point A to point B. Good luck on your studies. My graduation date is next June.<br>
ONLY $30k??? Wish I had that kind of money.<br>
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NT 4 SP 5 as a PDC using 4 IDE disks. C for system (100Mb), D for boot (WINNT) of 1Gb mirrored disks 1 and 2. E is User data of around 5Gb across each of 4 disks RAID 5'd giving about 16Gb usable. Finally 1Gb mirrored on disks 3 and 4 for whatever you want.<br>
That'll cost you a little over $1,000 dollars to build plus software. Or go for a PERC controller on a Dell 1300 for $2,000 that includes a transparent RAID controller of 3 x 4.5Gb SCSI disks (9Gb single drive visible to NT).<br>
That sort of power can do PDC, DHCP, WINS, RAS, Printing and so on. But I wouldn't recommend doing it for more machines. Use TCPIP on all clients as well as modems on the server for your clients. That's a start.
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NT 4 SP 5 as a PDC using 4 IDE disks. C for system (100Mb), D for boot (WINNT) of 1Gb mirrored disks 1 and 2. E is User data of around 5Gb across each of 4 disks RAID 5'd giving about 16Gb usable. Finally 1Gb mirrored on disks 3 and 4 for whatever you want.<br>
That'll cost you a little over $1,000 dollars to build plus software. Or go for a PERC controller on a Dell 1300 for $2,000 that includes a transparent RAID controller of 3 x 4.5Gb SCSI disks (9Gb single drive visible to NT).<br>
That sort of power can do PDC, DHCP, WINS, RAS, Printing and so on. But I wouldn't recommend doing it for more machines. Use TCPIP on all clients as well as modems on the server for your clients. That's a start.
NumberFive
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The drops and cabling start to get iffy....How big is the building is the first question, then do you have building plans... (we had to xray for those...big $$)<br>
if your staffers can run the cabling, that's all saved $$...bigger servers, faster connections....<br>
$30k is enough for a small hand-built server farm, and the cabling...Do you have to buy the PCs and laptops?<br>
if your staffers can run the cabling, that's all saved $$...bigger servers, faster connections....<br>
$30k is enough for a small hand-built server farm, and the cabling...Do you have to buy the PCs and laptops?<br>
Good Luck, this sounds like a great learning experience!<br>
First you need to figure what kind of cabling you want to use and how much you need of it. You also need NIC'c and RAS software. You need to know the area you are covering so you can figure how many hubs you need and also the cabling (because of the limitations on distance you can go between desktops.) You can use thicknet as a backbone and Cat 5 to the Desktops. If security is an issue you should use Fiber Optic cabling as a backbone. You would also want to set up another server to use as a proxy for the people RASing in.This is where you would install the RAS software. The proxy server is for security reason, like a firewall.<br>
Most of this info should be in your book you just have to find it and apply it to this situation.<br>
Good Luck.<br>
I would like to know how you do.<br>
First you need to figure what kind of cabling you want to use and how much you need of it. You also need NIC'c and RAS software. You need to know the area you are covering so you can figure how many hubs you need and also the cabling (because of the limitations on distance you can go between desktops.) You can use thicknet as a backbone and Cat 5 to the Desktops. If security is an issue you should use Fiber Optic cabling as a backbone. You would also want to set up another server to use as a proxy for the people RASing in.This is where you would install the RAS software. The proxy server is for security reason, like a firewall.<br>
Most of this info should be in your book you just have to find it and apply it to this situation.<br>
Good Luck.<br>
I would like to know how you do.<br>
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