Hi,

I've got to give a group presentation next week about the design of a (hypothetical) network that includes a number of windows computers with ethernet connections, and a number of Sun UNIX computers with ATM connections. Our group has to talk about the protocols/services involved in this network.

So far we've identified that it'll need DNS, Mail and Authentication services as well as DHCP, File and Print services. What I was wondering was if anyone could give us some pointers on issues that would be involved in this network as well as any pointers to information that would be of use (specifically of how ATM and ethernet would interact in such a network, as well as UNIX/Windows).

I'm not asking for anyone to give us an exact answer of what we would need (in fact I don't want that - we need to do the work ourselves), but any help would be appreciated.

Cheers,
ac