First National Bank’s president congratulates you on successfully managing
her network’s addressing issues. She then shares the information that she’s
about to make an offer to buy Monroe’s other bank, Metropolitan Savings.
She’s worried that the two banks’ networks won’t integrate easily. She isn’t
sure what kinds of servers or workstations are used by the other bank, but
the IT manager at Metropolitan Savings mentioned something about a net-
work that relies on the Internet. He also mentioned that they use UNIX ser-
vers and Windows clients. What can you tell First National Bank’s president
about integrating the two networks? What protocols would you recommend
that she use or continue to use to facilitate the integration process?
