Layer 2 Domains Paper
Layer 2 Domains Paper
Layer 2 Domains Paper
We have chosen an extended star topology connection using a router to designate the VLANS and two 24 port switches to provide the most cost effective setup for this small office network. Being the very small nature of the setup we are using a class C network of 192.168.0.1 that we will designate the first 20 IP addresses of each VLAN as static to support any servers we might install as well as printers we may install in the future. The other 106 host will be set to DHCP for the computers and allows additional computers in the future. The rest of this paper will discuss why we have made these choices.
First we will talk about why we have used a C class network.
Second we will discuss why we have reserved the first 20 IP addresses as static and left the rest set to DHCP.
Third we will discuss the extended star topology and why we have chosen that over another.
Fourth we will discuss why we are not using multiple VLANs for this small office network.
This network configuration will use an extended star topology with 2 Catalyst 2960 Plus 48TC-S Switches to segment the network into two VLANs. This will support 2 network printers and 45 employees. These catalyst series switches will support up to 8192 MAC address allowing our network to grow as more network devices and employees are added. To enhance our network performance the topology will be micro segmented to eliminate the possibilities of collisions and allow the network to operate at full duplex communications. Each device on a micro switched LAN has a point to point connection and hosts will have dedicated paths between senders and receivers, this will effectively double the bandwidth on our network.
As mentioned we will have 20 static IP addresses and we will use two of them for our printers one will be setup for each of our offices as shown in the diagram. The rest of the static IPs can be used for Email servers, FTP servers and any
Layer 2 Domains Paper
We have chosen an extended star topology connection using a router to designate the VLANS and two 24 port switches to provide the most cost effective setup for this small office network. Being the very small nature of the setup we are using a class C network of 192.168.0.1 that we will designate the first 20 IP addresses of each VLAN as static to support any servers we might install as well as printers we may install in the future. The other 106 host will be set to DHCP for the computers and allows additional computers in the future. The rest of this paper will discuss why we have made these choices.
First we will talk about why we have used a C class network.
Second we will discuss why we have reserved the first 20 IP addresses as static and left the rest set to DHCP.
Third we will discuss the extended star topology and why we have chosen that over another.
Fourth we will discuss why we are not using multiple VLANs for this small office network.
This network configuration will use an extended star topology with 2 Catalyst 2960 Plus 48TC-S Switches to segment the network into two VLANs. This will support 2 network printers and 45 employees. These catalyst series switches will support up to 8192 MAC address allowing our network to grow as more network devices and employees are added. To enhance our network performance the topology will be micro segmented to eliminate the possibilities of collisions and allow the network to operate at full duplex communications. Each device on a micro switched LAN has a point to point connection and hosts will have dedicated paths between senders and receivers, this will effectively double the bandwidth on our network.
As mentioned we will have 20 static IP addresses and we will use two of them for our printers one will be setup for each of our offices as shown in the diagram. The rest of the static IPs can be used for Email servers, FTP servers and any
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