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Routers and Network Segmentation

You will create screen shots and insert them in this document then upload it through Moodle. You may find it useful to review the Routers Power Point and the Routing Essentials handout in Moodle.

PART 1 – NetSim Network Simulator

1. Intro: We will use a Cisco router simulator for this assignment: NetSim (Network Simulator) from Boson. Boson charges for the full version, but there is a free demo version that will work quite nicely for us. It gives you experience configuring a Cisco router without needing the hardware.

2. The Boson website includes the download NetSim option, as well as a user manual and NetSim demo videos which you are invited to look at especially if you have problems doing the demo labs for this assignment. They have practice labs on their site as well, but they charge for these. You want the free demo labs for this assignment.

3. If you are doing this assignment from a classroom computer where NetSim is already installed go to Part A at the bottom of this document.

4. Use your browser to navigate to http://www.boson.com/netsim-cisco-network-simulator Then click the Download Demo button on the home page. It will ask you to login by creating an account. Create the account.

5. Select the NetSim Download Installer button, not the Boson Exam Environment (see below).

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6. Start downloading the NetSim package. After downloading it, if NetSim doesn’t automatically launch then launch it yourself.

7. When you are asked if you want to activate or demo NetSim, select demo (see below).

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8. When you re-launch NetSim, always select demo mode as shown below:

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9. Select the Demo Lab option when you see the link:

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PART 2 – The Configuration Demo Labs

1. After clicking on Try the Demo Lab, a console screen will appear at the bottom of the window (it says Press Enter to Start). This is for your command-line entry. The lab instructions are at the top:

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2. In the instructions, first there is a description and illustration of the internetwork you are implementing, and the commands you will use and what the lab’s purpose is. Read through this information carefully.

3. When you get to the Lab Tasks portion of the document, there are instructions that you are asked to perform given not the actual commands you would enter in the console window below, but what it is that needs to be done. Just look through this quickly and proceed to the Lab Solutions section farther down in the document.

4. Enter each of the commands in the Lab Solutions section into the console window below for each of the Tasks shown. These are actual Cisco IOS commands that are being simulated with the NetSim software. In the CS 289 Cisco Router and Switch Administration course (a required course in the networking degree), you will execute these commands on real Cisco routers.

5. When asked in the instructions to use a different device, select it from the list right above the console window:

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6. As you are doing this lab, screen print the console window where you are entering the commands for the following items, and insert the screen shots in order immediately below.

Task 2, #2, show ip interface brief

Task 2, #4, the two pings

Task 3, #1, the two pings

Task 3, #2, show ip route

Task 4, #1, the two pings

7. When you finish, go back to the Lab Tasks section above (the section you skipped through quickly) and look at what you are asked to do in each task. See how many of the commands you remember, having just executed them, when you are only given the task without the command. Then answer these questions:

What commands did you enter to set the hostname of the router? ______________________________________________________________________

What commands did you enter to set the IP address on the interface Serial 0/0? ______________________________________________________________________

What commands did you enter to set the IP address on the interface FastEthernet 0/0? ______________________________________________________________________

What commands did you enter to configure the routing protocol EIGRP? ______________________________________________________________________

8. Now, in the Standard tab on the left pane, click on Demo to open it up and select Configuration Demo 2:

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9. As you did in Demo Lab 1, read through the introduction, objectives, topology, and command summary, then proceed to the Lab Solutions section and enter all the commands listed into the console window.

10. As you are doing this lab, screen print the console window where you are entering the commands for the following items, and insert the screen shots in order immediately below.

Task 3, #2, the screens showing the configuration of EIGRP on the four routers

Task 4, #1, the three pings from PC1 to PC2 and PC3 and PC4

11. When you finish, go back to the Lab Tasks section above and look at what you are asked to do in each task. See how many of the commands you remember when just given the task and not the commands. Then answer these questions:

What commands did you enter to configure EIGRP to announce all networks that are directly connected to the routers specifying each subnet? ________________________________________________________________________

What command(s) did you enter to verify your configuration? ________________________________________________________________________

12. After finishing the second demo lab, optionally you could then do the Using NetSim and the Topology Demo labs, but this is not required for this assignment and there is nothing to turn in for these other two labs.

13. End of assignment.

Upload this document through Moodle with the screen shots included.

PART A – Classroom Computer with NetSim Already Installed

If you are doing this assignment on your own computer don’t do this part.

1. Login to the student account then launch Boson NetSim from the programs menu or desktop shortcut.

2. When you see the following dialog box, select “I want to demo NetSim.”

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3. Then if you have a NetSim account enter your email address and NetSim password on the following dialog box, otherwise create an account by clicking here on this dialog box.

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Note: If some other student has used this computer with NetSim, you may not be asked to login. Just indicate when asked that you want to use NetSim in demo mode.

4. On the following dialog box, click Try the Demo Lab.

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