Building a Network

[rlgaooa]

I need to connect three remote offices to my main office to support a bandwidth intensive software suite. To prepare I have had installed three point to point T1 lines. These lines terminate behind my firewall in the main office. I have three Cisco 2650 routers with 1 WIC-1DSU-T1 card for the remote offices and one Cisco 2650 router with 1 WIC-1DSU-T1 and 1 VWIC-2MFT-T1 card for the main office. I would like to configure static routes. I am running a Windows 2000 Active Directory environment with domain controllers in each office. The remote offices are completely separate domains. I am currently using 172.18.x.x \24, 172.19.x.x \24, 172.20.x.x \24 and 172.21.x.x \24 as my numbering scheme. I am using DHCP. I am using private DNS. I will pass all Internet traffic from the branch offices through the main office firewalls. Once the routers are configured and in, I have no problem with making the branch offices child domains or members of the main office domain, through subnets and sites. I see that Cisco's ConfigMaker doesn't address the 2650 router, so my first question of many is Where to start?

 

[jimmyzz]

rlgaooa,
For starters, what is your level of cisco router programming expertise? You stated that you use the cisco configmaker, but are you proficient in the IOS programming language? You seem to have the right desgin concepts, but if you're unable to configure a router from scratch, it would probably be better to contract a cisco qualified engineer to perform the programming. This forum is designed to assist with the answering of specific queries rather than an online tutorial.

JimmyZ

 

[rlgaooa]

Three years ago I took "years" one and two from CNAP. We used Cisco 1900 switches and 2500 series routers, so yes I can write a basic configuration. VWIC cards and voice over ip were just coming out at that point and the school I was at couldn't afford anything that sophisticated. On my current job we may at some point look at VOIP for toll bypass. My strong suite is in Windows 2000. I haven't had a lot of Cisco products to play with nor have I been able to afford a lot of rack rental time. I'm afraid a CCNA is still in my future.