Guided Practice - Connecting to the Internet (Physical) Zachary Trotter

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Guided Practice - Connecting to the Internet (Physical) In this guided practice, you will be wiring and programming a router and two switches using physical equipment or PacketTracer. You will be programming your LAN interface connections using VLANs and connecting your second-gigabit interface to the “Internet.” You will also connect your PC to each VLAN to show that your networks are programmed correctly. If you are using physical equipment, skip to Task 1; otherwise, do the following setup steps. At the top of the screen, there are two icons. Click on the left icon (create a new rack) and the right one (create a new table). Scroll down until you see the rack on the left and the table on the right. Go to the routers and click and drag a 4321 router onto the rack. Then click on the switches and drag 2 2960 switches onto your rack and place it directly below the Router. Either way is fine. Just make sure to keep your cables correct and know which of the switches is your first switch and which is the second.
Next, go to the PC and drag a PC over to your table. A yellow block will appear when your PC is in the proper place. Let go, and your PC will snap onto the table. Your finished setup should look like the screen below. You are now ready to continue to Task 1.
Task 1 – Wiring your network Your network should have a router, two switches, and a PC, which we will wire into a network. We will also connect the PC to the console port of the Router and switch and program the Router for your new networks. The router has three ports in the middle of the system, the two we wil use are G0/0/0 and G0/0/1. These are the two programmable gigabit Ethernet ports that you will be using to build your network. The third port, on the right, is for fiber optics and requires a plug-in module to work. First, we will connect a straight-through cable from the router port G0/0/0 to the switch 1 port G0/1 on the right of switch, then attach a straight-through from the first switch to the second switch going from the second-gigabit port, G0/2 on switch 1 to one of the gigabit ports on switch 2 (G0/1 or G0/2).
On your switch, there are 24 or 48 fast Ethernet ports and two or four gigabit Ethernet ports on the right-hand side. We’re going to plug the other end of our Ethernet cables into the First Gigabit port on the right side labeled 1 (or 3 if there are 4 ports) and then plug a cable from gigabit port 2 (or 4 if there are 4 ports) into the second switch’s gigabit port 1 (or 3 if there are 4 ports). Now you are going to wire from your console port on your Router to the serial port (RS232) port on your PC. If your PC doesn’t have a serial port, skip to the USB directions below. The USB and serial connections will work the same way, but the connection is different from the PC. Locate the serial port on your PC. Plug the cable that looks like the one on the right into the serial port. If you are using a USB console cable, connect the USB cable to a USB port on your computer. It doesn’t matter which you use, but you’ll need to make sure that your PC recognizes the cable when it is plugged in (we’ll see how to do this below).
Next, you will connect the Ethernet side of the console cable to the console port on your Router. Now you will connect your first switch to the PC using another Ethernet cable. Connect one side of the cable to a Fast Ethernet port on the switch and then the other side to the Ethernet port on the PC. You should see the light on your switch light up yellow and then turn green. This is because the switch is “learning” about your PC that has been plugged in.
Now you will add a wireless router and connect it to switch 2 port Fa0/24. If you are using Packet tracer drag an WRT300Nrouter on top of the PC. Connect the wireless Router from Fa0/24 on switch 2 to the Internet port on the wireless Router. You should now have the following network wired up and ready to be programmed.
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