Hello, I am a bit new to networking and I apologize for any mistakes
currently working on a school project, design a network that has at least 3 physical locations, and a few other non-relevant requirements (in cisco packet tracer).
I have designed a partial mesh (aka controlled chaos) with some redundancy at key locations.
Now the Issues that I am having is not having enough ethernet ports, in packet tracer I can add a NIM ES2-4 module that will give me 4 switch ports, but I would not be able to configure them for router to router communication(each building has its own router and at 2 locations there are 4 routers).
I could use serial connections for router to router (building to building) communication, but as I understand serial is much slower than an ethernet connection.
What would be the proper way to connect several routers together?
my original thought was "Oh I can just have a switch in the center that all the routers connect to" but I was told by my prof that this is impractical and did not elaborate on other potential methods.
Thank you,
Sincerely,
A Massive Noob
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