PACKET TRACER TUTORIAL

This lab is to be carried out after viewing the Interface Overview tutorial in the
packet tracer help menu.
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First we are going to create a LAN

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Click on end devices and then click on a generic pc and place it in the
logical workspace

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Click on switches and then click a 2960 switch and place it in the logical
workspace

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Click on end devices and then click on a generic server and place it in the
logical workspace

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We will now connect these devices together and run a test between the
client and the server.

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To connect a PC to a Switch you need a straight through cable

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Click on cables and then click on straight through cable

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Click on the pc and click fast Ethernet

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Drag the cable over to the switch and click on fast Ethernet 01

this is the first available

port on the switch.

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To connect the server to the switch is also a straight through cable so

select the cable and drag it from the server (fast Ethernet )to the switch
(fast Ethernet 02).

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So now we have a LAN and what we want to do is to be able to make the

three devices communicate with each other. To do that we need to give
them IP Addresses

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Click on the server label

and type in the

following IP address 192.168.1.254
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Now click on the PC label and type 192.168.1.200

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These IP addresses that we typed in are only labels. Now we are going to
actually give the machines those IP address.

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Go the server and double click on it you should see the following screen:

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Click on the config tab at the top

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Click on Interface fast Ethernet on the left hand side and you should see
the following screen

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Make sure that the port status is on

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Where it says static ip address type in the following 192.168.1.254 then

place the cursor in the subnet mask box and the following figures will
automatically appear:

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Close the window and now the ip address for the server is set

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To set up the PC double click on it

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Go to the config tab

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Go to fast Ethernet on the left hand side

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Make sure the port is turned on under static ip address enter

192.168.1.100

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Click the cursor into the subnet mask box and you should see the following

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Close this screen and now you pcs ip address is set

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We will now ping from the pc to the server to make sure that we have a
connection

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Double click on the pc and you are brought to the following window

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Click on the desktop tab at the top and then click on the command prompt
box in the middle

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Type in the command ping 192.168.1.254 (this is effectively pinging the

server) you should get the following screen

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Ok now that we know we have a connection lets look at some other tools

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Double click on the server and click on the config tab

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You will notice that the server has a web server built in. if you click on
http on the left hand side you will see the following screen

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Notice that the web server is turned on and if you look at the html code
you will see that it is a homepage

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Click on ftp on the left hand side

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You will notice that the ftp server is on that there is already a user set up
to use access it

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We will now create a new user

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Under username type student and under password also type student

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Tick on the write and read boxes that means that we are giving this
student read and write access to the ftp server click on the plus sign to the

right of the screen to add this new user

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Notice that we now have the http server and the ftp server turned on. We
can test these from our client pc

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Close the above screen

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Double click on the pc in the logical workspace

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To test our web server click on the desktop tab and then click on the web
browser box

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In the virtual browser that appears type in the ip address of the server and
click go

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You should now be able to see the web page that we saw earlier

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Close that screen

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Now we will do something else click on the command prompt option and
we will see if we can ftp up to our server.

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Type the following command ftp 192.168.1.254 you should see the
following screen

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You are now connected to the ftp server. For username type student and
for password type student remembering that we are accessing the
account we set up earlier

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To leave ftp type quit

Packet Tracer Tutorial Part Two

For part two of this lab lets add to our simple local area network by adding
a wireless router so that this would seem more like a typical home network

Click on wireless devices and then click on a Linksys wireless router

Your screen should look like the one below

Lets label this wireless router with its ip address that we are going to give
it 192.168.1.1 we are giving it .1 on its address as typically the routers
have the first address

We will then symbolise the Internet by adding a cloud the cloud will

symbolise the Internet

Your screen should now look like this

Now click on the connections button

From a switch to a router is a straight through cabl

From the switch to the router click the next available port

fast Ethernet 0/3

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And on the router go to its Ethernet Port 1

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Then from the router to the Internet typically in your home this would be
from the router to a modem or to a cable modem or sometimes your ISP
may give you a wireless router that has a modem built into it

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To join the router to the cloud click on the automatic chose connection

type option
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Your logical workspace should now look like this

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If you hover the mouse of your router you will notice that the cloud is
attached to the routers internet port

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Double click on the router you will see the following screen

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You will notice that the router has four Ethernet ports (that are used for
you local area network) and one WAN port (this is the port that goes to the
Internet)

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So lets configure the wireless router

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Click on the config tab

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You will see that the display name address is correct

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Click on the Lan option to the left of the screen and you will notice that the
IP address is incorrect.

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Change the IP address to 192.168.1.1

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We should now be able to ping from our pc to our router

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Double click on your pc

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Double click on the pc and you are brought to the following window

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Click on the desktop tab at the top and then click on the command prompt
box in the middle

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Type in the command ping 192.168.1.1 you are now pinging the router to
make sure that there is a connection.

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We will now configure the default gateway

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Double click on the pc

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Click on desktop and then click on IP Configuration

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We will now add the address of our router as our default gateway

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Lets add some more services to our web server

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Double click on the pc

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Click desktop and then click web browser

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If we type the address of our server we will get our web page that we saw
earlier

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But lets say we wanted this website to be called superyahoo.com we

would get the following screen

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It was supposed to go to our web server but obviously it didnt.

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We have put in this domain address but it doesnt go to our domain server

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We need to set up a dns to resolve this name to an IP address

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We can set up a dns server on our server

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Double click on the server

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First off the server now has a default gateway also so we can fill in the
router address

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Now click on our web server by pressing http on the left hand side of the
screen

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Where you see the word Cisco Packet Tracer in the html code change it to
super yahoo

Now click on dns on the left hand side of the screen

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Make sure that it is turned on

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Under name type: superyahoo.com

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Under address type: 192.168.1.254 so superyahoo.com resolves to the ip

address 192.168.1.254

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Click add

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Now double click on your pc

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Click on IP configuration

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And under dns server type the address of our server see below

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So now if we open up our web browser and type in superyahoo.com we

should see our new webpage displayed.