In Chapter 4, "Characterizing Network Traffic," you learned about Genome4U, a scientific research project at a large university that plans to sequence the genomes of 100,000 volunteers. The project will also create a set of publicly accessible databases with genomic, trait, and medical data associated with the volunteers. Genome4Us fund raising is going well, and the project is building a multistory lab for about 500 researchers. The project network engineers will be implementing a new internetwork for the lab using Cisco switches and routers. The network engineers plan to use EIGRP on the new routers. However, network designs are never that easy. The new internetwork also needs to communicate with many business partners, including a nearby biology lab that uses RIP and a fund-raising office that uses OSPF. The lab also needs Internet access, which it hopes can be achieved by simply connecting the network to the universitys campus network, which has Internet access.

Design a plan for integrating the different routing protocols into a new network design for Genome4Us lab. What information will you redistribute between routing protocols? What problems do you expect to encounter (with different metrics, security, and so on) when you redistribute, and how will you overcome the problems? How will you provide Internet access?