PMT 472 Week 1 Guided Practice 2 - Set up Physical Network OL 100% c0rrect & verified

Introduction to Routing and Switching Lab Week 1: Set Up a Physical Network In this guided practice you will be setting up and programming three routers and three switches using Packet Tracer. In Packet Tracer you will need to switch to the physical tab (at the top left of the screen) and then drill down to Home city, corporate office, and main wiring closet. You will be programming the following network in the physical tab of Packet Tracer. You will see an empty rack on the left side, two tables, and then a rack with your “Internet” network. Zoom into your network and scroll down until you see the rack on the left and the table on the right as shown below. Go to the routers and click and drag three 4321 router onto the rack. Then click on the switches and drag three 2960 switches onto your rack and place them as show below. Now turn off your routers and place a NIM-2T and a NIM-Cover into the left and right slots on the router. Turn the router back on. Do the same thing for each router. Next go to the PC and drag four PCs over to your table. There will be a yellow block that appear when your PC is in the proper place. Put two on top of the table on two under the table. You will also place a server into the rack below the routers and switches. Your finished setup should look like the screen below. On the far-right side of the system, you will see a separate rack with your “Internet” router, switch and server. You will be using this in the lab to connect your network to the Internet. You are now ready to continue to Task 1. Task 1 – Wiring your network Your network should have three routers, three switches, a server, and four PCs which we are going to wire together into a network. We will also connect the first PC into the console ports of the routers and switches and program a hostname onto each. First, we will wire the routers together using serial (HSSI) cables. This allows your routers to send packets between each network and will allow the local area networks to connect together in a wide area network. Using serial cables find the DCE side of the cables. Plug the DCE side of the cable into the left side of the serial card on the router. Go to the second router and plug the other side of the cable to the right side of that serial card. Do the same thing from router two to router three. Finally, plug from the left side of router 3 back to the right side of router 1. This will give you a loop through each of your routers and will allow the network to keep working even if one of your serial circuits fails. Next, we will connect a straight through Ethernet cable from the second router’s port G0/0/0 to the top switch. The routers have three ports in the middle of the system which are labeled G0/0/0 and G0/0/1. These are the two programmable gigabit Ethernet ports which you will be using to build your LAN network. The third port, on the right, is for fiber optics and requires a plug-in module to work. Plug your Ethernet cable into the bottom port labeled G0/0/0. On your switch there are 24 Ethernet ports and two gigabit Ethernet ports on the right-hand side. We’re going to plug the other end of our Ethernet cable into the first Gigabit port on the right side. Next you are going to wire from your switch’s second gigabit Ethernet port to the second switch’s gigabit port thus wiring the two switches together. Finally plug from your third router into the third switch. When you are complete it should look like the diagram below. Now you are going to wire from your console port on your first router to the serial port (RS232) port on your PC. Locate the serial port on your PC. Plug the cable that looks like the one on the right into the serial port. Next you will connect the Ethernet side of the console cable to the console port on your first router. Wire up each of your PCs into the switches using straight through cables as shown in the table below. Syste m Switc h Port PC1 Sw1 PC2 F0/1 Sw1 PC3 F0/12 Sw2 PC4 F0/1 Sw2 Server F0/12 Sw3 F0/1 Now run a straight through Ethernet cable from your first router port G0/0/0 to the “CSU-DSU” at the top of the far-right rack. This is your network’s “Internet” connection. Your network should now be wired and ready to be programmed. (see below)