Lab Network change help.

[Sir Asvald]

So I've got a network that I need help with.. Just a lab. So This is the lab. 

 

Spoiler

 

This network is running Point-to Point FRAME-RELAY between 3 locations around the world. The routing protocol used is RIPv2.

 

The main HQ is in New York and the data center is also in New York.

 

Between the Data center and the HQ, the Edge router that also connects the other 2 locations, London and Berlin

 

All locations have a the same connection speed. Each have 50/100. I will set up a local Internet backup in Each location and I will have a back FRAME-RELAY configured.

 

Locations London and Berlin have 2 deparments, Users and Local sys admins. They each are on a separate network.

 

I was thinking of having the DHCP server in the data center and have 1 subnet, rather than having different networks and subnets. Each location has a separate network. London has an IP of 192.168.1.0 and 192.168.2.0 Berlin has 192.168.5.0 and 192.168.6.0 and NY HQ has 172.16.0.0 and data center has 173.16.105.0

 

What do you guys think, keep it as it is or change it?  

 

 

[Lurick]

Different subnets per location and a DHCP server per site.

Burn RIPv2 and change to OSPF, or better yet, set it up with RIPv2 and do a migration to OSPF  

[Sir Asvald]

2 minutes ago, Lurick said:

Different subnets per location and a DHCP server per site.

Burn RIPv2 and change to OSPF, or better yet, set it up with RIPv2 and do a migration to OSPF  

I was thinking of having OSPF  

I will save a copy of the same network so I don't mess it up. I've got the routers in each location providing IP address already. So just keep it as it is and change the routing protocol?

[Lurick]

3 minutes ago, Abdul201588 said:

I was thinking of having OSPF  

I will save a copy of the same network so I don't mess it up. I've got the routers in each location providing IP address already. So just keep it as it is and change the routing protocol?

That's for you to figure out

Not going to give you any hints but there are ways to migrate from protocol A to B without much (or any) disruption.

 

Edit:

Of course that also depends on what PacketTracer will let you do, lol

[Falconevo]

Keep DHCP on site if they are in different geographical locations, it saves drama when things break

 

OSPF would be a sensible move, also not sure on the internet breakout being in the single location if they are all 50/100 as you have just squashed everyone's internet access in to a single 50/100 pipe?  All depends on how heavy the users would be in the scenario.

[Sir Asvald]

2 hours ago, Falconevo said:

Keep DHCP on site if they are in different geographical locations, it saves drama when things break

 

OSPF would be a sensible move, also not sure on the internet breakout being in the single location if they are all 50/100 as you have just squashed everyone's internet access in to a single 50/100 pipe?  All depends on how heavy the users would be in the scenario.

Each router is providing IPs to the PCs. Also, I've changed from RIPv2 to eBGP with OSPF redistribution. As for the speeds. Each location has 50/100. The total given speeds are 150/300.  

[Falconevo]

Just now, Abdul201588 said:

Each router is providing IPs to the PCs. Also, I've changed from RIPv2 to eBGP with OSPF redistribution. As for the speeds. Each location has 50/100. The total given speeds are 150/300.  

That's fine, but your internet breakout for the network will still be 50/100 in the manner you put it in the diagram design.

 

If you are planning to have all pipes lead to NY, you will be utilising that net for everyone.  Ideally internet breakout should be in the local geographical locations to give the users a better experience.  It all comes down to security and restriction for end user access at the end of the day, so at the discretion of the network architect

[Sir Asvald]

8 minutes ago, Falconevo said:

That's fine, but your internet breakout for the network will still be 50/100 in the manner you put it in the diagram design.

 

If you are planning to have all pipes lead to NY, you will be utilising that net for everyone.  Ideally internet breakout should be in the local geographical locations to give the users a better experience.  It all comes down to security and restriction for end user access at the end of the day, so at the discretion of the network architect

So what shall I do with the speeds? 

 

 

[Falconevo]

7 minutes ago, Abdul201588 said:

So what shall I do with the speeds? 

 

 

You don't need to do anything with the speeds, it's all about if you want users to access internet in their local geographical location.  This will give you the best performance for users in each site and have internal routing configured for all internal ranges to be sent via their appropriate links.

Put it this way, if you have a user in London attempting to access the internet in your current config.  They would go via all your internal hops to New York, then use the net in New York to potentially head back to the UK for a site they are visiting.  Imagine how bad a user experience that would be, being routed to the US just to access web content based in the UK, doesn't seem sensible.

[Sir Asvald]

1 hour ago, Falconevo said:

You don't need to do anything with the speeds, it's all about if you want users to access internet in their local geographical location.  This will give you the best performance for users in each site and have internal routing configured for all internal ranges to be sent via their appropriate links.

Put it this way, if you have a user in London attempting to access the internet in your current config.  They would go via all your internal hops to New York, then use the net in New York to potentially head back to the UK for a site they are visiting.  Imagine how bad a user experience that would be, being routed to the US just to access web content based in the UK, doesn't seem sensible.

I'd guess I would have each location have it's own ISP connection and through the frame relay they will communicate via eBGP.  

 

[Falconevo]

1 minute ago, Abdul201588 said:

I'd guess I would have each location have it's own ISP connection and through the frame relay they will communicate via eBGP.  

 

Sounds like a plan