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Size of a LAN
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Name: gncastano
Date: April 18, 2004 at 05:36:42 Pacific
Subject: Size of a LAN
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Comment: I recently was asked a question from a recruiter, "What is/are the size of LAN(s), that you are working with? How would you answer this question without being vague?
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Response Number 1
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Name: Rambler
Date: April 18, 2004 at 08:58:59 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Stretch your arms out and say "THAT big". The answer must surely be everything of significance that has a network address or plays a major role - the number of workstations, servers, print servers, network printers etc., and the "big grey box in the corner with lots of wires plugged into it".
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Response Number 3
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Name: wanderer
Date: April 18, 2004 at 10:21:45 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)The question refers to how many servers and workstations. Pretty common prehire question. I know because it is one I ask. You would impress the questioner if you included any routers/wan links/dialups/citrx/dsl etc. and discussed the lan topology.
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Response Number 4
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Name: briantech
Date: April 18, 2004 at 15:40:10 Pacific
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Reply: (edit) recruiter's are dum, they don't understand networking. I get asked sometimes some very DUM questions.. now remember I am a MCSE 2003 and on my resume it's states that I have administer LDAP and DAP servers.. and get asked "do you know anything about AD".. LOL LOL . recruiter's are not techical, they just place people.
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Response Number 5
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Name: OrionCA
Date: April 18, 2004 at 21:45:44 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Depends on who's using it. A home-LAN is normally 2-4 computers plus a printer and maybe a scanner running off a 4-port router. There could be up to 254 Internet devices running off this router, with the appropriate design, and a net mask (serial number range) of 255.255.255.0. Packets would probably move through the network like snail snot, however, so you'd want to break it up into smaller segnments. At work we have a LAN for our division that handles ~100 clients and separate LANs for each division, ranging from 10 clients up to 200 depending on the work they do. You can sign into anyone else's LAN with the right permissions and userid/password but users are usually isolated for security and administrative purposes. Ny company has ~3000 clients (PCs, printers, scanners, etc.) across all its LAN segments. We're considered a "small-medium" company as IT goes. Some companies have literally thousands of LANs all across the world and hundreds of thousands of client machines to administer on those LANs.
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Response Number 6
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Name: rick
Date: April 19, 2004 at 12:57:46 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)how big is your lan? 247 clients
17 ip based printers
9 routers
4 web servers
2 sql servers
6 remote offices w/ vpn etc.
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