05/03/2021
Just supported a client with their school network project. Everything is running on GNS3 simulation.
Requirements:
The network must satisfy the following requirements.
- Implement Client/Server using Windows environment for users’ management and control, high-level network management, and other services.
o The network must provide the essential services: AD, DNS, DHCP,
o Redundancy is required for the essential services.
o The network must provide Group Policy implementation.
- Proper network infrastructure planning with the assumption that the network supports few departments, and each department will have its own subnet (VLANs)
- Proper planning for IP address distribution using VLSM.
- Proper routing and communication between the two sites (routing protocol should be one of the advanced protocols, no RIP)
- Impose security using Access Control List (ACL)
- A secure connection between the two sites (VPN)
- Redundancy should be supported in the network infrastructure when possible.
- Website on a Web Server
The requirement is not a lot but it is a complicated network for medium-size companies with multiple sites. Students who can complete this project will have enough knowledge for a real work environment.
The network diagram that I setup in GNS3 was just enough for this project.
SiteA:
- 2 DCs running AD, DNS, DHCP in redundancy.
- Cisco Wireless Controller to serve Wireless Client using 802.1X via RADIUS server running on 1 Domain Controller.
- Multiple VLANs
- OSPF for routing protocol
- Site-to-site VPN with SiteB
Site B:
- Multiple VLANs
- a Web server
Just only 1 thing to consider. You need a strong machine with lots of RAM (16GB at least) to run this full network.
