A Simulation of the Local Area Network Design for Use in the Department of Civil and Electrical/Electronics Engineering, University of Agriculture, Makurdi Using the OSPF Routing Protocol

International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation (IJRSI) | Volume VI, Issue X, October 2019 | ISSN 2321–2705

A Simulation of the Local Area Network Design for Use in the Department of Civil and Electrical/Electronics Engineering, University of Agriculture, Makurdi Using the OSPF Routing Protocol

Peter A. Akor¹, Attai I. Abubakar², David Akhuwa³

^{1, 2, 3} Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Federal University of Agriculture, P.M.B. 2373, Makurdi, Benue State, Nigeria

Abstract-This project deals with the open shortest path first (OSPF) design of a local area network (LAN) for use in the department of Electrical/Electronics and Civil Engineering using the Cisco Packet Tracer. The aim of this project is to allow systems and devices to be able to communicate with each other and should be able to provide desired information, to reduce isolated users and workgroups, physical systems and devices should be able to maintain and provide satisfactory performance, reliability and security, resource sharing. For these devices to communicate on different networks, the networks must be routed to each other. Therefore after routing is done the LAN will be tested using a ping message command to test whether the devices can communicate.

Keywords-LAN, OSPF, Subnet, Router

I. INTRODUCTION

This design covers the Department of Electrical/Electronics Engineering and Civil Engineering. Which is further divided into four sections namely; the admin office (Electrical/Electronics Engineering office and Civil Engineering office), Electrical Lab, Civil Lab and ETF classrooms. Before the simulation was carried out a design was made which is shown in the circuit analysis, Switches were used to link system like computers, printers, scanners and servers within each block of the two departments using ports. A port in the switch is used to connect to the router. Routers are connected to each other using serial cables [this can be a wireless connection]. Type C class IP addressing was used to assign address to each component in the network after subnetting of the selected IP address. The system was configured on the packet tracer using OSPF.

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