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Hands-On Lab
Cabling and Addressing a Large Network
After completing this lab, you will be able to:
Properly cable a large network.
Perform basic subnetting for a large network.
Apply IP addressing to a large network.
In this exercise, you will connect all of the devices together using the appropriate cabling.
1. Open the Packet Tracer file titled Cabling and Addressing a Large Network.
2. Using the appropriate cable found in Connections, connect the FastEthernet port on Host 1 to
the FastEthernet0/1 port on the Dallas Switch.
3. Connect the FastEthernet0/2 port on the Dallas Switch to the FastEthernet0/0 port on the Dallas
Router.
4. Connect the Serial0/0/0 port on the Dallas Router to the Serial0/0/0 port on the Raleigh Router
using the Serial DCE connector.
5. Connect the FastEthernet0/0 port on the Raleigh Router to the FastEthernet0/1 port on the
Raleigh Switch.
6. Connect the FastEthernet0/2 port on the Raleigh Switch to the FastEthernet port on Host2.
In this exercise, you will subnet an address space. Do not apply VLSM in this subnetting scheme. This
means that you will only use one block size for all of your subnetworks. This also means you will only
use the largest block size for your addressing table. Use the information provided below to create an IP
address table.
172.16.0.0 /16 is the network address and starting CIDR.
1. The Dallas network needs IP addresses for 1000 hosts.
2. The Raleigh network needs IP addresses for 500 hosts.
3. The WAN connection between Dallas and Raleigh will need 2 host addresses.
In this exercise, you will use the IP addressing table that you created in order to apply IP addressing to
your devices. You will then confirm connectivity by pinging devices.
1. Using the first subnetwork in your addressing table, apply the first IP address to the Dallas
Router’s FastEthernet0/0 port.
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2. Using the same subnetwork, apply the last IP address to the Host 1 machine.
3. Verify connectivity by pinging the default gateway for Host 1.
4. Using the second subnetwork from your addressing table, apply the first IP address from the
second subnetwork to the Raleigh Router’s FastEthernet0/0 interface.
5. Using the second subnetwork from your addressing table, apply the last IP address from the
second subnetwork to the Host 2 FastEthernet interface.
6. Verify connectivity by pinging the default gateway for Host 2.
7. Using the third subnetwork from your addressing table, apply the first IP address from the third
subnetwork to the Dallas Router’s Serial0/0/0 Interface.
8. Using the third subnetwork from your addressing table, apply the last IP address from the third
subnetwork to the Raleigh Router’s Serial0/0/0 Interface.
9. Ping the Dallas Router’s Serial0/0/0 interface from the Raleigh router to confirm connectivity.
10. At this time, will Host 1 be able to ping Host 2? Why or why not?
In this exercise, you will create a static route and a default route so that the Dallas Router will know how
to send information to the Raleigh network and so that the Raleigh Router will know how to send
information to the Dallas network. Routers only know about their directly connected routes and must
be programmed to identify remote networks by either entering static (manual) routes or via dynamic
routing by programming routing protocols like RIP, EIGRP, or OSPF. Routers learn about their directly
connected routes when the IP address and Subnet Mask are configured on their ports. For example,
when we programmed the Dallas router’s IP address and subnet mask for port FastEthernet0/0, the
Dallas router performed ANDing to identify the network address for the Dallas network. It then
immediately added that network address to its routing table. ANDing is the mathematical process
where the router combines the IP address with the subnet mask in order to determine the network
address for that IP address.
1. Open the Dallas Router and click on the Config tab. Select Static under ROUTING. Where it
shows Network, type in the network address for the Raleigh network.
2. Under mask, type in the Subnet Mask for the Raleigh network.
3. Under Next hop, type in the IP address for the Serial0/0/0 port on the Raleigh router. Now
click Add to add the static route to the routing table.
4. Open the Raleigh Router and click on the Config tab. Select Static under ROUTING. This
time we are going to set a Default Static Route. This means that we will type in 0.0.0.0 for
the Network IP Address and Subnet Mask which will identify that any packets that come in
are a match and should be forwarded to the Next Hop router.
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5. Under Network, type in 0.0.0.0
6. Under Mask, type in 0.0.0.0
7. For Next Hop, type in the IP address for the Serial0/0/0 port on the Dallas Router.
8. To verify connectivity, ping Host 1 from the Host 2 machine. You should receive four
successful replies.
9. Open the Dallas Router and click on the CLI tab. Click in the IOS Command Line Interface
and hit Enter. Type in the following command in order to view the routing table: do show
ip route. Examine the routing table. It should breakdown the fact that we subnetted
192.168.16.0 using a /26 for each subnetwork. Further, you should be able to identify the
directly connected routes that were created when the IP addresses were configured on the
FastEthernet0/0 port and the Serial0/0/0 port. Finally, you should be able to recognize the
Static Route you created to connect to the Raleigh network.
10. Open the Raleigh Router and examine its routing table. What type of route do we have here
that was not found on the Dallas Router?
11. Congratulations! You have completed the lab. You can close out the lab. If you’d like to
save your configuration to examine again later, simply click on File, then Save As and save to
a location you can find later.
