Lab 8‐1A: OSPF Class Hardware Lab - AidanP017/Aidan-NET-330 GitHub Wiki

Purpose

In this lab, we grouped up and built a portion of a larger network using OSPF routing configurations.

Assignments

Our group was assigned to configure the West router which was required to connect to a PC in the West network as well as the Data Center router.

Our part of the network included the following information:

Network Name Network Address Subnet Mask Default Gateway
Data Center to West Center 10.17.1.32 255.255.255.252 10.17.1.33/30
West 10.17.40.0 255.255.255.0 10.17.40.1/24

West Router Configuration

Consoling Into The Router

To start, we established connections with the router using PuTTY. This included the following steps:

  1. Plugging the router's console cable into my workstation's USB port.

  2. Identifying the COM port being used by the router.

  3. Powering on the router.

  4. Configuring the settings under the Connection tab in PuTTY.

    a. Serial line to connect = Identified COM port

    b. Bits per sec = 9600

    c. Data bits = 8

    d. Parity = None

    e. Stop bits = 1

    f. Flow control = None

  5. Configuring the settings under the Serial tab in PuTTY.

    a. Select "Serial"

    b. Port = Identified COM Port

  6. Open the connection.

Configuring The Hostname

After consoling into the router, we first configured the hostname.

enable
conf t
hostname west2

Configuring The Interfaces

Next, we configured the interfaces for the two networks in the table above.

"Data Center to West Router" network configured on FastEthernet0/0:

int fa0/0
ip address 10.17.1.34 255.255.255.252
no shut

"West" network configured on FastEthernet0/1:

int fa0/1
ip address 10.17.40.1 255.255.255.0
no shut

Configuring OSPF Routing

Then, we enabled and configured OSPF routing on the router.

ip routing
router ospf 1
network 10.17.40.0 0.0.0.255 area 0
network 10.17.1.32 0.0.0.3 area 0

The configurations were saved after establishing them.

end
copy run start

By running the command show run, or do show run if in the configuration terminal (config), it can be verified that the FastEthernet ports were properly configured for the two networks.

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In addition, running the command show ip route, or do show ip route if in the configuration terminal (config), it can be verified that OSPF routing has been saved and established.

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Connection Testing

If all of the configurations were done successfully, it should have been possible to ping the two networks from a PC on the West network using a Kali thumb drive. We had to verify our connectivity with other groups in order to establish proper connections in the larger network.

The first screenshot shows the West PC pinging the default gateway of the West network, while the second screenshot shows the West PC pinging the default gateway of the Data Center to West Router network.

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