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No offense taken! I am absolutely a novice to all of this and a professional will absolutely be brought in. However, I am curious to learn more about networking so I am trying to understand VLANs and how they are implemented and configured. I really appreciate your time and patience with me...

So, the router can/will act as my DHCP server, right? Do you have any recommendations as to how to assign/configure IP addresses among the switches and workstations? Will the router just take care of that automatically? Thanks so much for your help!

Do you have a particular switch in mind? If not, can you recommend one? Like this? Does trunking require a specific type of cabling? Yes, something like that. I am being asked to configure a VLAN and I am definitely out of my depth! Thanks for all your help!

So if there is one department per floor, I would need six 48 port switches? By spoke-hub are you referring to the topology? Will each switch need to be trunked to the router? I know, I am a novice and I sound like I am asking questions for a homework assignment. I am just trying to understand...

The budget is unlimited, within reason.

I need to design a VLAN for a small business. This business has 6 separate departments, each with between 15 and 30 people. They are all in one building, with each of the 6 departments on a separate floor. They use AT&T as their ISP as of right now. My questions are: what hardware will this...