DEEN DAYAL UPADHYAYA COLLEGE

UNIVERSITY OF DELHI

Practical File

COMPUTER NETWORKS
(Generic Elective)
Department of Computer Science
Semester : VI

Submitted by : Submitted to :
Neeshu Mr. Deepak Mittal
B.Sc. (H) Electronics (Professor)
22HEL2222 Dept. of Computer Science

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 Topic direcTory

Sr. no. Practical Page no. Remarks

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To study and perform PC to PC 7
Communication.

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To create Star Topology using Switch and 8
Hub.

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To create Bus, Tree, Ring, Mesh, Hybrid 9
Topologies.

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Perform an Initial Switch Configuration. 10-11

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Perform an Initial Router Configuration. 12-13

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To implement Client-Server Network. 14-15

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To implement connections between 16-17
devices using Router.

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Practical 1 :

To study Basic Network Commands and Network Configuration Commands.

Some of the Basic Network Configuration Commands are :

1. ipconfig
This networking commands is used to the IP configuration details. This command provides you
the details like IPv4 address, Subnet Mask or Default Gateway.

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 2. ipconfig/all
This command can be understood as the updated version of the ipconfig command. This
command tells us the physical address of our device. It tells us various details of our computer
such as IPv4, IPv6 default Gateway, subnet mask, also it tells which devices our device is
connected, configuration details of the devices to which are devices are connected.

It also tells us about the DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol)-The main use of DHCP is to
automatically assign IP addresses to our devices.

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 3. ping

Ping command is used to get to know if the particular site can be reached by the ping command.
The ping command checks this by sending the packets of data to the destination address and if
the data returns to us in the given time frame, then it means that the particular website can be
reached.

4. Arp
The ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) command is used to display and modify ARP cache, which
contains the mapping of IP address to MAC address. The ARP protocol broadcasts a given IP
address over a local network. The corresponding host responds to the broadcast with its MAC
address. To avoid repetition, ARP stores the answer in a table known as ARP table. ARP maintains
a separate ARP table for each NIC.

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 5. Netstat Command
It is a command line tool that is identify and display the connections and ports connected to our
computer when we write netstat command on CLI (Command Line Interface).

It tells us active connections with our computer, and it tells us local address, foreign address and
the state of the device. In local address first 8 digits specify the local address of our computer,
and last 5 digits tells the port number to which our computer is connected. In netstat command
there are various subcommands such as netstat -n, netstat -a, netstat -b, netstat -f.

6. tracert
This command can be understood as trace root. Which tells that our computer reaches or hits
which-which server for reaching the particular root.

It tells us in maximum of 30 hops (30 node to node delivery).

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Practical 2 :

To study and perform PC to PC Communication.

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Practical 3:

To create Star Topology using Switch and Hub.

(b) Star Topology using Switch

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Practical 4 :

To create Bus, Tree, Ring, Mesh, Hybrid Topologies.

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Practical 5 :

Perform an Initial switch Configuration.

• Configure the Hostname

• Setup the login Password

• Set a Message of the Day banner for the Switch

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• Configure a line console 0 password

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Practical 6:

Perform an Initial Router Configuration.

• Configure Hostname and Set Password:

• Configure a line console 0 password

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• Set a Message of the Day banner for the Router

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Practical 7:

To implement Client-Server Network.

• Configuring the Server

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• Configuring the Device

• Checking the DNS Configuration

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Practical 8 :

To implement connections between devices using Router.

• Router Configuration for LAN Connection-1

• Router Configuration for LAN Connection-2

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