Week12 Networking Hands-on Assessment

Week 12. Networking Hands-on Assessment (15pt)

Restricted Open book: one A4 page note per student.
Student ID: ___________; Name: ___________________________________Mark: ________
Student ID: ___________; Name: ___________________________________Mark: ________
Student ID: ___________; Name: ___________________________________Mark: ________

Networking hands-on assessment

• Time: in week12 during Tutorial/Lab session
• Duration: up to 1 hours to complete the tasks, plus 5 min assessment time
• Materials: one A4 page note per student per group (note to be handed in with this
assessment sheet)
Tasks: build switch/router network
• Set Up the Topology and Initialize Devices (similar to weeks 11 lab network)
• Configure Devices, Verify Connectivity, Show router information
• Network traffic analysis
Assessment: groupwork (group size up to 3), individually assessed
• Results shown to your tutor. Fill in the blanks to show your tutor.
• Describe who did what, and answer questions.

Lab – Configuring Basic Router Settings with IOS CLI

Topology

Addressing Table
Device Interface IP Address Subnet Mask Default Gateway

R1 Fa0/0 192.168.5.1 255.255.255.0 N/A

Fa0/1 192.168.11.1 255.255.255.0 N/A
PC-A NIC 192.168.11.5 255.255.255.0 192.168.11.1
PC-B NIC 192.168.5.9 255.255.255.0 192.168.5.1

Required Resources
• Cisco netcad account
• Cisco Packet Tracer 7.3.0

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Part 1: Initialize Devices and Set Up the Topology

Step 1: Initialize and reload the router and switch
a. Add two PC, a 2960 switch and an 1841 router in Cisco Packet Tracer
b. Initialize and reload the switch/router following instructions in Appendix A

Step 2: Cable the network as shown in the topology.

a. Attach the devices as shown in the topology diagram
Step 3: Attach your screenshots

Part 2: Configure Devices and Verify Connectivity

Step 1: Configure the PC interfaces.
a. Configure the IP address, subnet mask, and default gateway settings on PC-A.
b. Configure the IP address, subnet mask, and default gateway settings on PC-B.
c. Ping PC-B from a command prompt window on PC-A.
Why were the pings not successful?
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Step 2: Configure the router.

a. Console into the router and enable privileged EXEC mode.
b. Enter into global configuration mode.
c. Assign a device name to the router.
d. Disable DNS lookup to prevent the router from attempting to translate incorrectly entered commands as
though they were hostnames.
e. Assign cisco as the privileged EXEC encrypted password.
f. Assign ciscoconpass as the console password, establish a timeout, enable login, and add the logging
synchronous command. The logging synchronous command synchronizes debug and Cisco IOS
software output and prevents these messages from interrupting your keyboard input.
g. Encrypt the clear text passwords.
h. Create a banner that warns anyone accessing the device that unauthorized access is prohibited.
i. Configure an IP address and interface description. Activate both interfaces on the router.
j. Save the running configuration to the startup configuration file.

Step 3: Verify network connectivity.

a. Ping PC-B from a command prompt on PC-A.
Note: It may be necessary to disable the PCs firewall.
Were the pings successful and why? Ye the pings were successful because the interfaces were
configured on router and switch. Both the networks are directly connected with the router.

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Part 3: Show Router Information

In Part 3, you will use show commands to retrieve information from the router. (attach your screenshot)

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Step 1: Display the routing table on the router.

What do codes “C” mean? C means that it is directly connected.
How many route entries are coded with a C code in the routing table? 2 entries are with code “C”

Step 2: Display interface information on the router.

What is the operational status of the Fa0/0 and Fa0/1 interfaces?
Fa0/1 is up
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What is the IP and MAC addresses of Fa0/0 and Fa0/1 interface?
Fa0/0: IP: 192.168.5.1 MAC: 0010.11b2.b201
Fa0/1: IP: 192.168.11.1 MAC: 0010.11b2.b202

Step 3: Display a summary list of the interfaces on the router and switch.
1. If the Fa0/1 interface showed administratively down, what interface configuration command would you use to
turn the interface up?
no shutdown
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2. What would happen if you had incorrectly configured interface Fa0/1 on the router with an IP address of
192.168.1.2?
The ping of PC-A with PC-B would not have been successful. As both are on different networks.

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Part 4: Analyse Network Traffic

Step 1: Retrieve PCs’ interface addresses. (attach your screenshot)

PC-A: IP: 192.168.11.5 MAC: FE00::240:5CFF:FEAC:7EA2

PC-B: IP: 192.168.11.5 MAC: FE80::290:GFF:FE3B:17B2

Step 2: Answer the questions.

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a. For the ping request data sent from PC-A while PC-A ping PC-B, what the source IP and MAC addresses
and destination IP and MAC addresses?
Source IP: 192.168.11.5 Source MAC: FE00::240:5CFF:FEAC:7EA2
Dest IP: 192.168.11.5 Dest MAC: FE80::290:GFF:FE3B:17B2
Does the Source MAC address match PC-A’s interface? Yes
Which interface is the Destination MAC address? It is PC-B

b. For the ping request data arrived at PC-B while PC-A ping PC-B, what the source IP and MAC addresses
and destination IP and MAC addresses?
Source IP: 192.168.11.5 Source MAC: FE80::290:GFF:FE3B:17B2
Dest IP: 192.168.11.5 Dest MAC: FE00::240:5CFF:FEAC:7EA2
Does the destination MAC address match PC-B’s interface? Yes
Which interface is the source MAC address? It is PC-B

Appendix A: Initializing and Reloading a Router and Switch

Step 1: Initialize and reload the router.

a. Console into the router and enable privileged EXEC mode.
Router> enable
Router#
b. Type the erase startup-config command to remove the startup configuration from NVRAM.
Router# erase startup-config
Erasing the nvram filesystem will remove all configuration files! Continue? [confirm]
[OK]
Erase of nvram: complete
Router#

c. Issue the reload command to remove an old configuration from memory. When prompted to Proceed
with reload, press Enter to confirm the reload. (Pressing any other key aborts the reload.)
Router# reload
Proceed with reload? [confirm]
*Nov 29 18:28:09.923: %SYS-5-RELOAD: Reload requested by console. Reload Reason:
Reload Command.

Note: You may be prompted to save the running configuration prior to reloading the router. Type no and
press Enter.
System configuration has been modified. Save? [yes/no]: no

d. After the router reloads, you are prompted to enter the initial configuration dialog. Enter no and press
Enter.
Would you like to enter the initial configuration dialog? [yes/no]: no

e. You are prompted to terminate autoinstall. Type yes and then press Enter. Would you like to
terminate autoinstall? [yes]: yes

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Step 2: Initialize and reload the switch.

a. Console into the switch and enter privileged EXEC mode.
Switch> enable
Switch#
b. Use the show flash command to determine if any VLANs have been created on the switch.
Switch# show flash
c. If the vlan.dat file was found in flash, then delete this file.
Switch# delete vlan.dat
Delete filename [vlan.dat]?
Delete flash:/vlan.dat? [confirm]
Switch#

d. Use the erase startup-config command to erase the startup configuration file from NVRAM. You are
prompted to confirm removing the configuration file. Press Enter to confirm to erase this file. (Pressing
any other key aborts the operation.)
Switch# erase startup-config
Erasing the nvram filesystem will remove all configuration files! Continue? [confirm]
[OK]
Erase of nvram: complete
Switch#

e. Reload the switch to remove any old configuration information from memory. You are prompted to confirm
reloading the switch. Press Enter to proceed with the reload. (Pressing any other key aborts the reload.)
Switch# reload
Proceed with reload? [confirm]

Note: You may be prompted to save the running configuration prior to reloading the switch. Type no and
press Enter.
System configuration has been modified. Save? [yes/no]: no

f. After the switch reloads, you should be prompted to enter the initial configuration dialog. Type no and
press Enter.
Would you like to enter the initial configuration dialog? [yes/no]: no
Switch>

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