CHAPTER 2
Network Design
In this chapter, we will cover:
• Basics of networking
• Design requirements
• Topologies
• Security controls
As with so much else, it’s useful to start off knowing what it is you are trying to accomplish. That means gathering requirements. There is some skill, perhaps, associated with gathering requirements. If you aren’t looking for actual requirements, you are going to end up with a solution in search of a problem, which isn’t very useful. Once you have the requirements and understand what you are building your lab network for, you can start thinking about how to design it. In the simplest of cases, you will find that you can stick all of your systems on a single subnet. That’s not always going to be the ...
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