You have been approached by Company XYZ to design and deploy a new network that will span three cities in Queensland: Brisbane (12 users), Gold Coast (8 users), and Cairns (6 users).
The company already uses 192.168.3.0/27 and would like to maintain the same subnetting structure across these new cities. Note that the zero subnet is used. Adhering to their subnetting scheme, the three cities have been assigned their subnet numbers: Brisbane (4th), Gold Coast (6th), and Cairns (7th).
Access to the Internet is crucial for each office, as well as, inter-branch-office networking. Due to their larger business operations in NSW, routing protocols such as, EIGRP, OSPF, and RIP are used. For their QLD operation, you can choose any routing protocol, but you need explain the reason of your choice.
Your goal is to design, deploy and successfully implement their business requirements using all or any of the following:
• Switches
• Routers
• Workstations
• Operating systems
• Routing protocols
• IP addressing: hosts, subnet addresses, broadcast addresses
• Router-based DHCP server
• NAT/PAT
Solution
You are required to design topologies for the three sub-networks for approval. You can use Cisco Packet Tracer or any other program to develop your topology diagrams. You must document each step you have taken, including your research sources. Any information that you recommend must be supported by references, such as Internet links, printed documents, etc.
You can earn extra credit for this assessment by providing more than the minimum requirements (inform your lecturer if you wish to earn extra credits):
• Wireless networks
• VLSM
• Data traffic filtering (firewall)
• ACLs & wildcard masks
• Static routes
• Default routes
• Alternate path determination