Mis 589 Mini Case Week 4
Mini Case
II. Central University
Suppose you are the network manager for Central University, a medium-size university with 13,000 students. The university has 10 separate colleges (e.g., business, arts, journalism), 3 of which are relatively large (300 faculty and staff members, 2,000 students, and 3 buildings) and 7 of which are relatively small (200 faculty and staff, 1,000 students, and 1 building). In addition, there are another 2,000 staff members who work in various administration departments (e.g., library, maintenance, finance) spread over another 10 buildings. There are 4 residence halls that house a total of 2,000 students. Suppose the university has the 128.100.xxx.xxx address range on the Internet. How would you assign the IP addresses to the various subnets? How would you control the process by which IP addresses are assigned to individual computers? You will have to make some assumptions to answer both questions, so be sure to state your assumptions.
As a network manager, I would first try and see whether the addresses are already known/established and whether or not they are in the same subnet. If the addresses are known and they are in the same subnet: I would make the following assumptions: -Client computer requests a web page from a web server in the same building. -The computer is familiar with the data link layer addresses of the web server (has requested pages before, keeping addresses in tables) If the addresses are known, but they are not in the same subnet, I would make the following assumptions: -Client computer requests a web page from a server in a different building
II. Central University
Suppose you are the network manager for Central University, a medium-size university with 13,000 students. The university has 10 separate colleges (e.g., business, arts, journalism), 3 of which are relatively large (300 faculty and staff members, 2,000 students, and 3 buildings) and 7 of which are relatively small (200 faculty and staff, 1,000 students, and 1 building). In addition, there are another 2,000 staff members who work in various administration departments (e.g., library, maintenance, finance) spread over another 10 buildings. There are 4 residence halls that house a total of 2,000 students. Suppose the university has the 128.100.xxx.xxx address range on the Internet. How would you assign the IP addresses to the various subnets? How would you control the process by which IP addresses are assigned to individual computers? You will have to make some assumptions to answer both questions, so be sure to state your assumptions.
As a network manager, I would first try and see whether the addresses are already known/established and whether or not they are in the same subnet. If the addresses are known and they are in the same subnet: I would make the following assumptions: -Client computer requests a web page from a web server in the same building. -The computer is familiar with the data link layer addresses of the web server (has requested pages before, keeping addresses in tables) If the addresses are known, but they are not in the same subnet, I would make the following assumptions: -Client computer requests a web page from a server in a different building