AY 2013-14, Semester III

AY 2013-14, Semester IIIDATA COMMUNICATIONS

Semester III

AY 2013-14,

Experiment #4
SETTING UP A LOCAL AREA
CONNECTION

Student Name: ________________________________

Student ID: ___________
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Objectives:
At the end of the experiment, I should be able to:

Introductory Questions:

Q1. What is a Local Area Connection?

Q2. What is a Network Interface Card?

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Figure:

Figure 1:
IV. List of Required Equipment and Materials:
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Component Name

Specification / value

Quantity

NIC Card

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4
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Experiment Procedure:

Figure 2: Connected icon

If not, check the cable, try to unplug the RJ-45 and plug it
back.
1.Go to the other PC, and Do STEP 4.2.
When you succeed to all PCs, then all of your PCs are networked
physically.
Are they really connected?

Why?

Perform the IP Address configuration (Ref: Experiment 7) to all PCs.

Set the IP addresses of both PCs to the same network (e.g.

192.168.2.n)

Now Perform the Ping Test again.

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What do you get?

You have succeed in building a peer to peer network.

Utilize the Fault Insertion Module

Now unplug RJ45 from either PC and put Fault Insertion Module (CLPPLT-G1) in between 2 PCs. Please refer to Error: Reference source
not found8.3.
F a u lt
I n s e r t io n
M o d u le

PC 1

U T P C A T 5 C a b le

PC 2

Figure 1: Peer to Peer with Faulty Module

1. Turn the switch of the Fault Insertion Module to NORMAL position.
Do the Ping Test to other PC.
Are they connected?
1.Turn the Fault Insertion Module to FAULT Position. Do the Ping Test
to other PC. Compare the results.
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Till this step you have succeed to build a peer to peer with cross
cable.
Share your resource.
Go to one PC, make a temporary folder.
Make the temporary folder shared.
Go to other PC, open RUN command line window.
Type other IP address (eg. \\192.168.2.2) and press (Enter)
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What do you get?

Now try with the straight cable.

Take off one the cross cable. And replace with the straight cable as
Figure 1
Go to either PC and do the Ping Test to other PC.
results.

Compare the

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Why straight cable didnt make it?
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Conclusion / Analysis of Results:

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Viva Questions:
List various advantages of peer to peer networks.

Discuss the role of cross over cable and straight cable to establish LAN.

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