Reference no: EM132540796
ITNE1001 Network Architecture - Victorian Institute of Technology
Activity 1
1. Open the packet tracer software interface and get familiar with it using the help menu
2. Place three node PCs and one laptop within the work area
3. Connect them using a hub (hub 1). What is the suitable connection type?
4. Similarly, connect another three PCs nodes using a switch (switch 1) on the same workspace
5. Is it possible to connect the hub 1 to switch 1? Connect the two network segments using minimum resources and call it ‘Subnet 1'
6. Now, create a different ‘Subnet 2' by connecting 3 PCs to another switch (switch 2)
7. Now you are asked to connect these two subnets by connecting switch 1 and switch 2 using a suitable network device. Confirm from your selection by asking the instructor
8. It is required to assign IP addresses to these devices in order to enable networking among them. Assign suitable IP addresses to each device of your choice.
To assign IP address click on the network device and go to the ‘config' tab. Then click the ‘FastEthernet' button under ‘Interface' to get the IP config wizard as shown below
9. Now try to communicate with different nodes using the ‘ping' command
Activity 2:
1. Create the following network on Packet Tracer interface. When connecting the router to switches make sure the Switch0 is connected to FastEthernet0/0 interface and Switch1 is connected to FastEthernet0/1 interface of the router
2. As shown in the figure above assign the IP addresses 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.2.1 to the nodes PC0 and PC1
3. What is the class that these IP addresses are belonged? What is the subnet mask?
4. Are PC0 and PC1 are in the same network? Explain the reasons for your answer
5. Click on PC0 and use its ‘Command prompt' to ping from PC1. Is your ping successful? If not explain the reasons for that
6. Now we are going to configure the router. Click on the router and go to ‘CLI' tab.
7. You'll see the dialogue ‘Continue with configuration dialog? [yes/no]:' at the bottom. Type ‘yes' and hit enter.
8. Then give a suitable router name and give a password when ‘Enter enable secret:' is asked. Use the password ‘password' for this.
9. The enable password is used when you do not specify an enable secret password, with some older software versions, and some boot images. When ‘Enter enable password:' is asked assign the password ‘pwd'.
10. For ‘Enter virtual terminal password:' give ‘vpwd' for the password and hit enter
11. When it says "Enter interface name used to connect to the management network from the above interface summary:" type ‘FastEthernet0/0' and hit enter as shown below. This allows you to configure the router's interface to Switch0.
12. Then assign the following IP configurations to ‘FastEthernet0/0'
13. Then select option 2 in from the following message.
14. Then use the ‘enable' command and the password ‘password' to get into Privileged EXEC mode. This will appear in with ‘#' symbol
15. Then type ‘config t' command to get the configuration terminal.
16. Then use the command "interface FastEthernet0/1" to configure other interface of the router.
17. Then type (config-if)# ip address 192.168.2.254 255.255.255.0 to assign an ip address to this interface. And then use "no shutdown" command to turn the interface on. Then type ‘exit'.
18. Then use the following two commands to configure routing. This will enable packet forwarding
Router(config)#ip route 192.168.2.0 255.255.255.0 fastEthernet 0/1
Router(config)#ip route 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0 fastEthernet 0/0
19. Then type ‘exit' and use "copy running-config startup-config" command to save configurations.
20. Now your network is up and running. Now try to ping from PC0 to PC1 and comment on your results.
Attachment:- Network Architecture.rar