networking is hard

[RandomFool]

I am working on two network senarios for school. one is a high security network on 3 servers with 50 printers and 500 computers. the other is large network spread throught out a town it will need to have 100 computers. i need information on how i could possibly do this. what cabling and hubs and the such. this is a school project any help would be appreatciated. Thank you.

-Ryan

 

[dbx]

hubs?? people still use those?

 

[skeletal29]

hellow you have to give us more information?What type of city,area etc?

this is not some guess wht i am doing thing!!!!

if you want help you better write out all teh details!



p.s Usually when you tell someone your gonna do something you should have prior knowledge about it, or else youll end up screwing someone over

 

[ojai00]

<< p.s Usually when you tell someone your gonna do something you should have prior knowledge about it, or else youll end up screwing someone over >>



Exactly what I was thinking, especially for a job that has such a huge scale as this one.

For your school, you'll need to draw out a map of it, and find out how to wire the building. It's better if you get switches instead of hubs. You'll most likely be using CAT5 or CAT5e straight-through patch cables to connect everything. Good luck on this, and in the future, don't tell someone that you'll do the job if you're not sure how to do it. Find out how first, then give them a response.

 

[Jackal&Cash]

dude, u are screw if u dont know what u doing, networking 500 hundred PC is not that easy to 3 server plus 50 printer. There is alot of work to be done on the server, and workstation.

 

[skeletal29]

what a a** thats like saying i am a doctor but you dont know SH** then you ask the nurse to do all the work!

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

<< one is a high security network[/b]
so much for that

 

[bigshooter]

I think by scenario for school he means a project for a class. Otherwise you're f@cked.

 

[PeeluckyDuckee]

lol, sounds more like an assignment of some sort, otherwise, yup, there goes your high security network

 

[Nutz]

Post your email address or enable PMs and I'll send you some stuff to help you out.

 

[Woodchuck2000]

The biggest factor with that many PCs is going to be their physical location. If they're grouped into 10 rooms of 50 PCs, you're going to need a completely different backbone to 500 rooms each with one PC. Also the distance between the rooms is going to majorly affect the cabling options available. The location and role of the servers is going to depend on the network topology and the operating system you're planning to run. Post some more information, and I'm sure the anandtech gnomes will be willing to help

 

[RandomFool]

hehehe. i'm not stupid enough to accually try and do that without knowing anything. I'm starting on getting net+ and my teacher gave out senarios for networking we're supposed to work on. It's just the basics and i don't need all the really intense info. I was just looking for some basic suggestions for what to use to set it up what type of cabling, NOS and the such.

The high security network on 3 servers with 50 printers and 500 computers is in a single bulding.

The large network spread throught out a town it will need to have 100 computers is well spread around a town with 100 houses one in each house.

Although it would be pretty amusing if i did try to do this for someone...i would probably be killed if i did.

 

[Woodchuck2000]

Your probably gonna want a gigabit backbone if you're dealing with 500 clients...

Assuming you're running Win2k, Install the fastest server as a win2k Primary Domain Controller and install the other two as domain controllers in the same domain. Install the print queues on one of the domain controllers. Serving 50 printers is hard work so you're gonna need to get load balancing going to avoid stressing the print server...

since you're in one building, you can use Gigabit over copper. Get a 16 port managed gigabit switch, ten 24 port managed 100mbit switches with gigabit modules, and twenty 24 port 100Mbit switches. Arrange the 100mbit switches into ten groups of three, and cascade them so you end up effectively with ten 72 port switches, each with a gigabit module.

Put gigabit cards into the spare 66mhz/64bit PCI slots in you servers (The other 64/66 slot being taken up by the big f%$-off RAID controller) then run cables from each of the three servers to the gigabit switch, and from ten slots on the switch to the uplinks of the 72port switches. Make sure everything is set to full duplex, and you're away...

You'll end up with 720 ports floating around, and 550 things to plug into them (The printers of course having network cards.) This gives you plenty of flexibility with cabling. If money is tight, get rid of as many of the spare (module-less) 100mbit switches as possible.

If you want it really secure, you can use the management software to enable a MAC address based VLAN on the Switches - This will stop any unwanted machines being allowed into the network.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

<< hehehe. i'm not stupid enough to accually try and do that without knowing anything. I'm starting on getting net+ and my teacher gave out senarios for networking we're supposed to work on. It's just the basics and i don't need all the really intense info. I was just looking for some basic suggestions for what to use to set it up what type of cabling, NOS and the such.

The high security network on 3 servers with 50 printers and 500 computers is in a single bulding.

The large network spread throught out a town it will need to have 100 computers is well spread around a town with 100 houses one in each house.

Although it would be pretty amusing if i did try to do this for someone...i would probably be killed if i did. >>


thats a releif

well, good luck on your net+