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The system component in this university divided into five categories.
a)
Network components
Physical connectivity (Layer2), technologies used are: Switched Ethernet,
Gigabit Ethernet, Wireless Networking (802.11b)
Routing and
logical subnets, the equipment
is
composed of
Alcatel OSR and
Omnicore
L2/L3, with 15 internal IPv4 subnets
Firewall, currently used CheckPoint Firewall-1
solution
running
on
Nokia
IP740 hardware platform.
Management,
for the network
management
is performed by SNMP.
Remote access, the component supporting remote access are:
Livingston
Portmaster 56K/ISDN dialup, RADIUS server, Microsoft VPN Server.
IPv6 access,
for the IPv6 service
is taken
from
regional
network (LeNSE)
to
the JANET (NREN) and facilitated by 6PE over MLPS
b)
Address allocation components
Network devices will use a combination of address allocation mechanism:
Manually configured addresses (in some servers)
Stateful DHCPv6 (probably in fixed, wired devices and some servers)
Stateless address autoconfiguration (probably in wireless and mobile devices)
RFC 3041 privacy addresses (in some client devices)
c)
Services
The components services hosted by the department of network are:
Email,
there
are
three
MX
host
for
inbound
email,
and
two
internal
mail
servers. Sendmail is the MTA, POP and IMAP are used for mail access.
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