Network procedures and guidelines

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Some of the CITES network-related guidelines and procedures appear below. More will be added as time allows. These are broken down into:

• Approval of network equipment
  (failure to comply with some of these items may result in charges to your department for corrections to equipment configurations)
  
  
• Network naming conventions
  (including DNS instructions, AppleTalk-specific and IPX/NetWare-specific calculations, and use of private name space)
  
  
• Applying for network design work
  (including full designs, redesigns, upgrades, card access, firewall groups, working with outside vendors, and wireless network access)
  
  
• Network configuration guidelines
  (including SNMP and Ethernet autosensing recommendations. Some of these are not strict requirements, merely useful suggestions.)

Approval of network equipment

In the Interim Policy on Appropriate Use of Computers and Network Systems at The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, CITES is charged with approving network equipment before it is connected to UIUCnet. The Network Design Office provides the approval process.

• Clarification of Section 8 wording about LAN Equipment

Network naming conventions

Special conventions are used to assign network names and addresses on specialized subnetworks (such as AppleTalk and IPX/Novell) which will not conflict with conventions on the primary (TCP/IP) network. These documents include:

• AppleTalk on the Urbana-Champaign Campus
• NetWare/IPX on UIUCnet
• (Draft) Guidelines for the use of private IP space (RFC 1918 space) at UIUC

Applying for design work

The CITES Network Design Office handles many network design-related issues for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus community, including:

• A full design or redesign with wiring upgrade
• Card access to a building or part of a building
• Placing groups of computers in different campus firewall protection groups
• Requirements for approval of a department-run firewall
• Wireless networking
• Working with outside vendors for network design services

Network configuration guidelines

CITES has also accumulated a great deal of experience in the most useful and convenient ways to configure various parts of your networking. Some of the documents which are not strict requirements but do contain useful advice include:

• SNMP recommendations
• Ethernet auto-sensing