University of Wollongong

School of Computer Science and Software Engineering

CSCI322/MCS9322 System Administration Summer 2010

Assignment 3 (5 marks)

Due 11:59pm September 17 September 2010.

Aim:

The aim of this assignment is to become familiar with subnet masking and designing small networks for
fictitious organizations. There are also some small questions for you to answer.

Part One (2 marks)

1. A Company has applied for and received a class C network address of 197.15.22.0. The network is
to be divided into 4 subnets. Write down each subnets network number and broadcast address. How many
hosts are there per subnet?
2. How many bits does it take to define 1024 networks using a class B address? What is the subnet mask for
this?
3. Assume we have two addresses 137.157.7.65 and 137.157.10.3. Using the mask of
255.255.252.0 are these two addresses in the same subnet - explain?
4. What techniques are available to route packets to private addresses?
5. Explain the concept of fragmentation and how IP header attributes are used? What is the role of the MTU
in fragmentation?

Place your answers in ass3p1.pdf.

Part Three (3 marks)

Imagine you work for a firm which provides system administration and networking services to organizations.
One day an organization which runs a hotel contracts to your organization. They provide the attached plans.

The hotel has a class C public address space. The network number is 203.220.72.0/24. The hotel provides a
number of eatery, office, accommodation and conference like services. This particular organization would
like to claim that all facilities have access to the Internet.

The Hotel has the following features.

1. 90 hotel rooms which have access to the Internet, spread over 5 floors (that is five floors of hotel
rooms). Each room is to have one fixed Ethernet interface. Please note on each floor there is a hotel
room which has got an attached bedroom. That room will also require a fixed Ethernet connection.

CSCI322/MCS9322 Spring 2010 – Assignment Three Page 1

 2. Each floor consisting of hotel rooms has a rack in a communications closet – there is a suitable riser
between floors.

3. A large conference room capable of housing up to 15 fixed users is located the ground floor. Fixed
networking is required in this room.
4. The owners of the hotel recommend supporting up to 200 wireless users concurrently. Users of such
facilities should have access to the Internet through out all floors of the hotel.
5. The hotel has a small office that manages reservations and the hotel’s programs/ facilities. There are
no more then 20 people in these offices (very crowded) requiring access to the Internet. These offices
are situated on the ground floor and are directly attached to the Administrative Offices.
6. The hotel wishes to have Internet functionality in the lobby bar providing customers with access to
the Internet. There would be no more then 5 concurrent customers – these are built into the tables
adjacent to the concierge desks.
7. The concierge and reception tables will require at least 3 network connections each.
8. The hotel also wishes to have machine room. The machine room would have no more then 16 hosts
and is situated on the ground floor in the communications room.
9. Your carrier gives you a high end DSL (perhaps a Juniper) router that advertises your network to the
rest of the world. The external interface of your router will be bound to an address, which you
nominate from your address space. The internal interface of the router should connect directly to your
routing core. You not need to worry about routing from the outside worlds perspective. But you will
need to worry about routing for your entire internal network. You should advise your infrastructure
that the public interface is you default gateway.

A basic floor plan is attached.

You now know what the hotel requires in terms of connectivity. Using this partial specification, proposes a
structure for the network to be used by the hotel. Your design of the network should describe the
infrastructure you have and how it is connected from both a Layer 1 perspective. Some of the considerations
to address include:

1. Do have switches on each floor?

2. How will these switches be connected to one another?
3. What kind of switches do you plan to use?
4. What media will you use to connect edge devices to the switches and/or routers?
5. What kind of routers will you use?
6. How many interfaces will they have of what type?
7. How will you distribute the cabling up the floors of the building and within the floors?
8. What components will you need in addition to the switches and routers required?

Once you have done a physical design of the network you are then to define a network structure. When doing
this you are to work out network numbers and sizes along with the number of routers you wish to have. You
should provide a logical diagram of this.

Once a design is complete for each device you are to provide a configuration – as this hotel has an alliance
with Cisco you can assume you will be using Cisco kit. You will need to outline the routing rules you put in
place (only inside and default gateway). You should aim to use as much of your address space as possible but
you MAY need to use NAT/PAT.

CSCI322/MCS9322 Spring 2010 – Assignment Three Page 2

You will also need to nominate an address for a DHCP server for both wired and wireless infrastructure –
this can come from the address space allocated for the machine room. Your network configuration should
include whats needed to support this from a routing/ switching perspective.

To do this task you will have to make assumptions as to security, segmentation, isolation and other aspects.
For each assumption you make be sure justify it using common sense and/or evidence provided above. You
are free to use VLANS and VLAN trunking protocols such as 802.1q where appropriate.

Finally you will need to define appropriate ACL’s on your infrastructure. The rules are as follows:

1. Users on wireless or the open nodes adjacent to the concierges desk should not be able to access the
hotels corporate networks.
2. Users on the hotels corporate network should only be able to talk to the machine room using protocols
DNS, DHCP, HTTP, HTTPS and SSH.

Once complete you should submit your design documentation in ass3p2.pdf.

Submit:

Submit your solutions to the assignment (obeying the above file specification) using the following submit
command (combine both PDFS in other words).

submit –u USERNAME -c csci322 -a 3 ass3.tar.gz

An extension of time for the completion of the assignment may be granted in certain circumstances. A
request for an extension must be made to the Subject Coordinator before the due date. Late assignments
without granted extension will be marked but the mark awarded will be reduced by 1 mark for each day late.
Assignments will not be accepted more than three days late.

CSCI322/MCS9322 Spring 2010 – Assignment Three Page 3