DE LA SALLE UNIVERSITY – DASMARINAS

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, ARCHITETURE AND

TECHNOLOGY

ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING PROGRAM

Implementing Basic Connectivity

EXPERIMENT #1

SUBMITTED BY:

Villanueva, Kyle Janssen M.

ECE41

DS: 1/ 6 / 19

DP: 25/ 5 /19

ENGR. AMY LIWANAG

(INSTRUCTOR)
I. OBJECTIVES:

• Perform a Basic Configuration on S1 and S2

• Configure the PCs

• Configure the Switch Management Interface

II. Introduction

Background In this activity, you will first perform basic switch

configurations. Then, you will implement basic connectivity by

configuring IP addressing on switches and PCs. When the IP addressing

configuration is complete, you will use various show commands to

verify configurations and use the ping command to verify basic

connectivity between devices.

III. Subjective questions

1. How can you verify that both passwords were configured

correctly?

- After exiting the user EXEC mode the switch will force you to

provide a password to access the console then after that

another password will be required to access the privileged

EXEC mode. To verify one can use the command show run.
2. Step 5: Save the configuration file to NVRAM. Which command do

you issue to accomplish this step?

- S1# copy run start

3. Type the ping command and the IP address for S1 and press Enter.

Packet Tracer PC Command Line 1.0 PC> ping 192.168.1.253 Were

you successful? Explain.

- ping unsuccessful because the switches have not been

configured with an IP address.

4. Switches can be used as plug-and-play devices. This means that they

do not need to be configured for them to work. Switches

forward information from one port to another based on MAC

addresses. If this is the case, why would we configure it with an IP

address?

- We need to assign an IP address first in order to connect

remotely to a switch.

5. Why do you enter the no shutdown command?

- No shutdown command makes the interface in an active status

6. Which command is used to save the configuration file in RAM to

NVRAM?

- Copy running-config startup-config

IV. Data and Results

Perform a Basic Configuration on S1 and S2

Verify and Test Network Connectivity

Discussion

In this experiment we were tasked to create a connectivity

between two end devices which is PCA and PCB, but first we do

need to configure the two switches that bridges the two end

devices. We first configured the hostname (Switch1 to S1) by using

the CLI tab, by using exec mode we can change the basic

configurations inside the switch. We also configured the password

for the EXEC mode by using the command “ S1(config)# enable

secret”. Banner motd is also used in order for us to create a

written sign If someone attempts to access the network. The

configurations were saved using copy run start command. Once

the two switches were configured we proceed to change the ip

addresses of the 2 end devices. Then we create a VLAN for the

switches Unlike the routers that allow for management on any

configured interface, with switches you are not able to associate

IP addresses to the physical ports or interface; rather, you

associate the IP address to a virtual interface that is implicitly

created with a Virtual LAN (VLAN). This can be done by using the

command S1(config-if)#ip address 192.168.1.241 255.255.255.0. . By

doing this we successfully created a link between the two end

devices.

Conclusion

In conclusion, by using cisco one can configure different types of

network devices. As seen in this experiment we were able to

configure the password, hostname and even the VLAN ip addresses

for the two switches, and also changing the IP addresses for end

devices.