designing a network with 10 broadcast domains and 32 collision domains. pls help me.

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I have a homework which I need to design a topology in packet tracer with 10 broadcast domains and 32 collision domains and my network should have 5 routers 10 switches 2 servers and 16 workstations( pc printer etc,) I have trouble in how do I connect the routers and the switch because the switches. and also I have trouble counting broadcast domains. I am not sure if the server that is connected to a router is considered a broadcast domain? I only know is router divides broadcast domains and will have if it is connected to a switch with workstations. thank you.
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Does it specify you have to do that? Why not just connect them to the switch and if you want to separate put them in a different VLAN?
What is a "broadcast domain"? Maybe use the Routers for those, especially seeing as how we need 10 broadcast domains and have 5 routers, split them up 5/5
What is a "collision domain"? I'd use the switches for that part...
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How many collision domains? Cisco CCNA - YouTube
good luck
I counted 28.
I am sorry I am very new to networking. I am currently taking up CCNA 1.
you can use from router to router crossover, serial or optical.
in my topology i have 4 switches with 8 port this is equal to 32, at the center i have 6 serial connections ( 6 broadcast domains ), and then 4 switched networks ( 4 broadcast domains )
This one is quite wrong. The previous design met the need, except the routers weren't connected. This one makes no sense. Physically, almost all the devices are on the same broadcast domain.
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so on my previous design I just need to connect all the routers? I don't need to connect the switches? I am not sure if im gonna make 32 broadcast domains on my previous design if I would just connect all the routers but I will try. Thanks for your help.
every connection from router to router is a broadcast domain, broadcast's stay within the network... they are not routed.
A broadcast domain is a network.
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Thanks ptilsen! Got it! I got one more question in my mind.. Was it right that I used copper cross-over on connecting the routers? Or I should have used Serial DCE cable? The two cables confuses me because sometimes I saw them using serial cables when connecting routers. Thanks again!
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Oh well, glad you got it down though!
every interface on the router is a broadcast domain, every interface on the router belongs to a different network, routers are used to split broadcast domains...
broadcast to not travel from one interface to another, they are not routed, they stay within the network, do you know what a broadcast is????
a broadcast is a arp request for something... arp request are not routed!!!
no two routers are in same broadcast domain even if they are in the same building.
if you have two routers connected by a switch those interfaces are in the same broadcast domain, but the other interfaces of a router are not..
Broadcast domain
A broadcast domain is a domain in which a broadcast is forwarded. A broadcast domain contains all devices that can reach each other at the data link layer (OSI layer 2) by using broadcast. All ports on a hub or a switch are by default in the same broadcast domain. All ports on a router are in the different broadcast domains and routers don't forward broadcasts from one broadcast domain to another.
The following example clarifies the concept.
in this example there are 8 broadcast domains
check this video
How many collision domains? Cisco CCNA - YouTube
you should try a learn more about broadcast domains!!!! i think you dont understand the concept well, when you say all routers are in the same broadcast domain.
Edit: Just to ensure there's no ambiguity about which diagram I'm referencing, it's this one:
http://www.techexams.net/attachments/forums/ccna-ccent/4614d1387298890t-designing-network-10-broadcast-domains-32-collision-domains-pls-help-me-network-design3.jpg
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you dont know that you are wrong, but ill try once more to clarify your understanding of broadcast domains.. this time i have ilustrated the diagram for you to see how many broadcast domains there are.
and there are 8!!!
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