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-- BobVitale? - 09 Feb 2005
Copy of email below explaining Marc's new objective for the network lab racks.
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 17:27:52 -0800
From: Marc Mosko <marc@computer.org>
To: Brad Smith <brad@soe.ucsc.edu>, Jim Warner <warner@ucsc.edu>, Mark Boolootian <booloo@ucsc.edu>, Bob Vitale <rvitale@soe.ucsc.edu>
Subject: Layout of racks for lab
After the course content meeting today, there is a change to the layout of lab equipment.
It seems like in some cases we would get good use of the lab with only a single router and switch per student, which would double the class size to 20 stations. To accomodate this, I would like to layout each station as:
1) Student "A" could use #2, #3
2) Student "B" could use #5, #6
3) #4 could be used to connect to class network via Ethernet and give each student a T1 connection. In such a case, this router would become an instructor-maintained device.
On a related note, what I am thinking of doing is constructing the setup so we can have a TFTP boot server so each device can boot remotely and load the config to make resetting the lab to a known-good condition easier for the TA. I've not done this with Cisco gear before, but it should be possible. There would need to be some minimum typing to erase the running config and tell each device what to boot next.
Marc
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 17:27:52 -0800
From: Marc Mosko <marc@computer.org>
To: Brad Smith <brad@soe.ucsc.edu>, Jim Warner <warner@ucsc.edu>, Mark Boolootian <booloo@ucsc.edu>, Bob Vitale <rvitale@soe.ucsc.edu>
Subject: Layout of racks for lab
After the course content meeting today, there is a change to the layout of lab equipment.
It seems like in some cases we would get good use of the lab with only a single router and switch per student, which would double the class size to 20 stations. To accomodate this, I would like to layout each station as:
- PIX 506
- 3550 switch
- 2621 router w/ WIC-1DSU-T1
- 2621 router w/ VWIC-2MFT-T1, WIC-2A/S
- 2621 router w/ NM-CE, WIC-1DSU-T1, WIC-2A/S
- 2950 switch
1) Student "A" could use #2, #3
2) Student "B" could use #5, #6
3) #4 could be used to connect to class network via Ethernet and give each student a T1 connection. In such a case, this router would become an instructor-maintained device.
On a related note, what I am thinking of doing is constructing the setup so we can have a TFTP boot server so each device can boot remotely and load the config to make resetting the lab to a known-good condition easier for the TA. I've not done this with Cisco gear before, but it should be possible. There would need to be some minimum typing to erase the running config and tell each device what to boot next.
Marc