Today Tavita and I spent the morning in the lab rooms at MIT organizing how we are to use the real gear to showcase the project brief. As we have access to a limited number of Cisco Catalyst distribution layer switches, it was decided that we were limited to two buildings that consisted of two floors. The topology states there isn't anything required of the top floor of building A, so we are not including it in our real world topology.
We also went over what we needed to complete this week towards the project, which included the network fully converged. This involved adding networking technologies we believed were vital for the Core/Distribution network including:
- Etherchannel
- OSPF (Open Shortest Path First)
- HSRP (Hot Swap Routing Protocol)
For the Access layer portion of the network, we will need to configure:
- Spanning Tree
- VLAN interfaces (Virtual Lan)
