Paddy Murphy is the owner of the Mesa Irish Dancing Academy. Paddy's academy currently has 15 students which consists of both boys and girls all aged between 5 and 10 years of age. To run his academy, Paddy hired the former world female Irish dancing champion 'Stuti O'Sullivan'. Two Vets (who both served with Paddy in the US Airforce) volunteer on a regular basis.
Paddy's academy has recently received a large financial donation from none other than Michael Flatley, yes, you read that correctly'The Michael Flatley". As Michael is quite reserved, he wishes that the actual donation amount not be made known to public.
Paddy has the responsibility of spending Michael's donation in a way that would best serve his academy. Paddy's first wish is to implement a local computer network in his academy, so the students can communicate with each other, access dance routines from a central computer and the ability for students to print certain routines. Paddy would like each student to have a desktop while his coach (Stuti), his two Vet volunteers, and himself would need laptops.
Paddy does not want the students or anybody for that matter to have the ability to access the Internet under any circumstances. Paddy also wants each student to have a designated PC, so he wants to have a PC assigned each student.
One of Paddy's great strengths which is gets from his late father (Paddy Senior) is his ability to look ahead. Paddy at some point down the line wants to have other dancing age groups in his academy. He would like these other age groups to communicate separately with each other. At the moment, Paddy just wants the one age group to be setup.
Paddy predicts the following age groups and number of students per group. Don't forget his existing 5 -10 age group.
· 11 - 13 years: 20 students
· 14 - 17 years: 29 students
· 18 and above 5 students
Network Requirements
Examine the network requirements (current and future) and answer the questions below.
1. How many subnets are possible?
2. How many subnets are required?
3. What is the maximum number of IP addresses that are allocated to a single subnet?
4. What is the total number of usable IP addresses that are needed for the entire network?
How to make a logical topology & addressing scheme of Paddy's requirements
· Show the name, IP address and subnet mask for each device.
· Paddy has assigned you the 192.168.1.0 network.
· Paddy want to you use the subnet mask that will provide the least wastage of IP addresses