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Scenarios
Scenario
To help design the optimum solution and address the issues presented in each chapter, you have
contracted with the design professionals at RouteitRight to help you.
RouteitRight's key personnel are as follows:
Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
Billy Broadcast
Chief Information Officer (CIO)
Megg A. Bight
Senior Telecommunications Engineer
Peter Packett
Director of Sales
Freddy Forklift
Information Systems Manager
Harry Helpnot
Help Desk Manager
Millie Sekkons
Network Specialist
Roddy Routebegone
RouteitRight was recently contacted by Happy Routing. Happy Routing has just purchased
regional outlets. To streamline business and administrative costs, the company would like to
have one network protocol running through all of its sites. Currently, four protocols exist at the
four different sites: OSPF at Memphis, IGRP at Atlanta, EIGRP at Charlotte, and RIP at
Jacksonville. The networking group at Happy Routing cannot agree to standardizing on a single
protocol. Peter Packett will talk to each network administrator to try to bring about a change to
a common protocol. One of the sites, Memphis, is not using Cisco equipment and, therefore,
cannot use IGRP or EIGRP.
Freddy Forklift will call the Memphis office. If he can sway them to implement a Cisco router
in their segment of the WAN, the standardization process might be simplified. RouteitRight has
recommended that Happy Routing redistribute the different protocols until a standard can be
determined.
Look at the network topology, shown in Figure 6-13.
Figure 6-13
Topology for Happy Routing
OSPF 7
Memphis
Frame
Relay
R1
Atlanta
R2
IGRP 42
RIP
R4
Jacksonville
EIGRP
50
R3
Charlotte
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