Major Network design help needed ....

[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Ben Duncan wrote:
> OK, I have been called in by a Company to help with some MAJOR networking issues.
> This involves an Apartment complex located on the grounds of a Major University.
> The apartments are sponsored by the University, but operated by a private firm.
> One of those "Future of" campus housing deals. All Apartments are wired with cat 5e,
> come with cable Tee-Vee and telephone service.
>
> Now, I have have 3 complex's. Complex A has 48 apartments, B has 24 and C has 36.
> Each complex's wiring terminates in it's own "Equipment Closet" and has
> a HP 4000M Procurve switch. Each Complex's Switch has a Fiber Connection that goes back
> to a Central Location that then terminates in another HP Procurve 4000M
> then goes out via a uBR900 Cable Router with 6Mbs/6Mbs internet connection.
>
> They are reporting that the connections are being dropped, slow response, and
> no DHCP address's are being given out. The cable techs' report that the Router shows
> it has been trying to hand out 400 DHCP address's. The manager of this operation
> knows that students are coming over to the Apartments and (ab)using the network,
> since the University has port blocking and throttling in place. (I Suspect
> some one's running some server farms as well as a on-line gaming
> setup as well ;-> ). This equipment was installed around 2000/2001.
>
> The managers seem convinced that the HP PRocurve 4000M is a "managed" switch with
> various "features". The only things I see it has is "Spanning Tree", VLAN and
> port trunking control.
>
> They want a proposal on what to do. New Equipment? Routers at each Unit ?

You need to figure out where the problems are coming from.  Can you
reproduce any of this?

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