3 Planning Your Network

This chapter will help you to draw your network map and contains worksheets to help you plan your network, internetwork, gateway, and network directory configuration. You will need to consider a number of items as you plan your configuration. This chapter provides guidelines to help you accomplish the following:

Draw an internetwork map.

Complete the internetwork table.

Draw a network map and complete network worksheets for each link that you are configuring.

Complete the network directory worksheet if a network directory is required.

Update Domain name files if using DNS for node name resolution. Refer to Chapter 12 , “Configuring Domain Name Files.”

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