CMIT350 UMUC Springfield Area Cisco Network Proposal

My professor graded to Cisco Network Proposal and responded …….

You have a professional writing style that really shines here. You have some areas where you can improve but they are easy fixes and show you have a good grasp on the technical material. Take a look at the detailed feedback below and adjust fire in your resubmission.

1. Hostnames: Half credit here, I love the discussion and you have a good example for SW1. For full credit I’m just looking for your naming convention for all five Springfield devices.

2. Banners: Excellent, you have good discussion and command examples for login and MOTD banners. You banner content isn’t overly welcoming to unauthorized access. Only recommendation I would give is to be sure you understand at what point during authentication each banner is displayed.

3. Enable Secret: Half credit on this one, you discussion is good but your command is a little off. It looks like you tried to set the hashing type to MD5 but got your syntax a little off. The level keyword dials enable into a permission level of 5 which would need to be defined and you’ve effectively set the password to “password acmepassword” which I’m guessing you didn’t intend to do. Go back and try this out and see if you can work out what the right answer is here.

4. Service Password Encryption: Perfect, you have a command example and good discussion on this element.

5. Line Config: I’m going to give you full credit here, your discussion and examples are good. You left the login command off of both line sets so it wouldn’t actually allow login as it is. Be sure you correct this for full credit in element six.

6. SSH: As part of the VTY configuration I’m looking for you to include some SSH commands and discussion. How do I enable SSH and not Telnet? Why would I not want to do Telnet? What about versions of SSH in IOS should I use 1 or 2 and why.

7: SW1 Root Bridge: Half credit here, you have the technical solution for setting SW1 as the root bridge but for full credit I want you to explain the problem and how your solution fixes it.

8. Spanning Tree: Half credit on this one, you’ve got good discussion on but I’m looking for two fixes for full credit. Select a STP mode and justify why you selected that mode. You should also implement at least one technology to control unwanted or unexpected BPDUs.

9. Overall Formatting: Excellent, you have an easy to read and understand format applied to all sections. You’ve produced a clean and professional document here.

10. Sources Cited: Great, you have two IEEE styled sources and you have cited them appropriately within the document.

I took off half credit on 1, 3, 7, and 8; full credit on 6.