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Local Area Networks (LAN) have become an integral part of modern communication technology. Introduced as an experimental technology, it emerged as a feasible way to share computer resources scattered over distances for educational institutions, companies, corporations, etc. However, to utilize it's full benefit, it is vital to link individual LANs to other LANs or backbone networks. Here in this paper we will discuss the way we connected our LAN to outside network. Over the development of LAN, a lot of LAN technologies were introduced --- LAN Bus, Ethernet, Token Ring, FDDI(Fiber Distributed Data Interface), ATM(Asynchronous Transfer Mode), LocalTalk, just to name a few. Among these, Ethernet is the most popular and most widely used technology in practical use these days. It was started as Bob Metcalfe's Ph.D. thesis at MIT specified at a speed of 3 Mb/s, but later it moved to 10 Mb/s. In our LAN we use this technology to build our network combined with the vast resources of free UNIX powerful enough to turn PCs into workstations and servers. This paper is organized in the following manner: Chapter 1 gives an introduction as you can see above. Chapter 2 deals with the overview of our LAN. It covers both hardware and software settings required to construct our LAN, thus becoming a little bit bulky in size. Chapter 3 gives a tip of the iceberg of System Administration. Chapter 4 deals with the Security issue in a simple way, rather than in detail that would require another big paper. Chapter 5 is the conclusion of this paper. |
| | Home | Introduction | An Overview of Our Network | System Administration | Security | Conclusion | Acknowledgements | References | Appendix 1 | Appendix 2 | Appendix 3 | Appendix 4 | Appendix 5 | Appendix 6 | Appendix 7 | Appendix 8 | Appendix 9 | Appendix 10 |
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