Saturday, April 11, 2020

Help w/ Case Study VLSM

Networkers,

My partner and I are struggling to get through our CCNA final case study project. We've reached out to our online professor multiple times for this same issue and she gives us back one liner replies which haven't shown effort or offered any real advice, so here we turn to you advanced vets for guidance.

The project regards building out a network design for a fictitious company which has the following requirements:

  • 22 employees in the Research and Development group.
  • 10 employees in the Sales and Marketing group.
  • 8 employees in the Administration group.
  • 6 employees in the remote sales office.
  • Lifetime Max of 6 servers on separate subnet, regardless of company growth.
  • Use subnet 210.210.200.0 /30 for connection to the Internet router.
  • Use public class C network 222.0.0.0 for internal addressing.
  • Use VLSM for IP addressing.
  • Expect 100% growth of current IP requirements when determining size of subnets.
  • All networking devices must have IP addresses

So to account for the 100% growth rate in each of these departments, we created the following VLSM schema: (imgur links to a table covering the network address ranges and subnets)

https://imgur.com/QdBa7z8

So great...now we think what we have is the proper addressing scheme for this companies network and we're looking to pop into packet tracer to build this layout. Upon configuring the routers, though, we're getting an error stating that our networks are overlapping with the networks given to interfaces at the other side of the router. Heres a picture of what I'm talking about: (imgur links to a screenshot of our packet tracer build and the CLI of router #5 with which we are getting the aforementioned error.)

https://imgur.com/xPQq6ic

So we sent out professor 2 different e-mails asking about help with this issue and got the following response:

"When setting up ips start with the most needed to the least." and "the .131 is not a valid network."

Truthfully, I'm not sure if that makes sense to any of you, but it didn't help me at all whatsoever, not even a hint of an idea came from these replies. We've already spent collectively 6 hours on this phase of the project and haven't been able to build this network. We've tried changing up our VLSM schema, but no matter how we have it set we get errors just like this.

If any of you have any input or suggestions they would be GREATLY appreciated as my partner and I have pretty much exhausted all of our resources and our professor does not seem to want to put in the effort to help us..

Thanks so much for all your time,

-Tony!



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