Assignment 2: Packet Tracer Task

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GUIDE ON PACKET TRACER TASKS - ASSIGNMENT 2- MUST RE… Abdullahi Sanusi posted Mar 23, 2021 12:15 AM Subscribe

Below is a summary of steps you need to complete. I have provided a comprehensive step with

configuration examples in some of the task for your convenience. Please, do not copy some of

my examples verbatim- they are provided as a guide.

SUMMARY STEPS

You need to configure various VLAN in all the access switches and configure appropriate ports

for appropriate VLANs

- If you are using a distribution switch(distros). You will need to create VLAN interfaces for

Each VLAN in the Distros. If you are using two distros. You may need to configure HSRP or

VSS to automate your redundancy. You will also need to create a trunk port between the

Access switches and the Distros. The trunk should allow all the VLANs created.

Router: You will need to configure the WAN interface connection on the router with the IP

scheme you created in Part 1.

If you are not using a distribution switch and you are going directly from the switches to the

router- this may be considered as Collapse distro. You will need to create a trunk between the

switches and the router and configure the router as router-on-stick to allow inter-VLAN traffic.

You should test connectivity from one site to the other using ping command from one host to

the other.

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COMPREHESIVE STEPS

Place and connect all your devices in packet tracer

Common Tasks on all devices

-Make sure you configure hostnames on all your devices using the command below (router or

switch) Example below for an access switch in Honolulu

Create VLANS (Production and Admin) on all access layer switches and name your VLAN

Example below. The example below is for production VLAN 10. Do the same for Management-

remember- choose your on VLAN ID # for both VLANs, you don’t have to use 10.

Connect host to access switches and place appropriate port on appropriate VLAN

Once you connect your host to your access switch. Make sure you assign the switch

port your host/PC is connected to the appropriate VLAN. Example, if you connect a PC

to port fa0/15 on a switch and the PC is supposed to be in the Production VLAN which

you make VLAN 10 on the first floor. You will need to assign the switch port fa0/15 to

VLAN 10 (production VLAN). Example below

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Use the same concept for the rest of the hosts you are connecting an access switch.

Access switch connection to distro.

Fig 2

Make sure you set all the ports between your access switch and Distribution layer switches to

truck

Example: in figure 2 above the access switch (on the left) port Fa0/1 is connected fa0/1 on

Distro 1 and Fa0/2 is connected to fa0/2 on Distro 2. Fa0/1 and Fa0/2 on both the distro and

access switches will need to be set to a trunk mode. This is necessary to carry multiple VLAN.

See config Example below

Access switch

Distro

Configure VLAN and VLAN interface in your distro.

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Create the same VLAN you created in access switches on the distro as well (Production and

Management)- see creating VLAN above

After creating your VLAN- create your VLAN interface.

Example. If your IP scheme for 1st floor in Honolulu is 192.168.1.0/24 and you have one distro

And you want to use the first two IP address on your distros. In distro 1 you will create a VLAN

interface for the production VLAN- This interface is the gateway for traffic in and outside of

your VLAN. Create a VLAN interface for production VLAN 10 in Distro 1

If you have two distros and want to take the advantage of redundancy. It is better to use HSRP

on your distro with a virtual interface.

You can use 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0 as the Virtual interface IP address

Your Distro 1 IP can use 192.168.1.2 255.255.255.0

Your Distro 2 IP can use 192.168.1.3 255.255.255.0

And the config will be as below.

Distro 1

Distro 2

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Your Virtual IP address of 192.168.1.1 is what all users/host on your production VLAN 10 will

use as their gateway.

Connecting the Distribution switches to Edge router (routers)

Use straight through cable to do the connection

Use a layer three connection between them

You can use either a static or dynamic route (OSPF or EIGRP or RIPV2)

Connecting your WAN router to the MPLS cloud or Point-to-Point connection

You can use dynamic routing (OSPF or EIGRP or RIPV2) within your WAN cloud routers

or your point-to-point connection

When done, you should be able to

Ping from a host in one site to a host in another site (mandatory)

You should be able to access the internet from a remote site that doesn’t have it’s own

ISP (optional)

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