Lab 12.2 Building a WLAN in Packet Tracer - Hsanokklis/2022-2023-Tech-journal GitHub Wiki

Objectives

• Part 1: Configure a Wireless Router
• Part 2: Configure a Wireless Client
• Part 3: Verify Connectivity

In this activity, you will configure an access point, allowing for remote access from PCs as well as wireless connectivity with WPA2 security. You will manually configure PC wireless connectivity by entering the router SSID and password.

In this lab we will be using the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) to use a special group of IP addresses which have been assigned for LAN use only and can never be routed on the Internet. When properly configured, DHCP automatically assigns IP addresses to connecting hosts. The addresses you will be using are on the 192.168.0.0/24 network.

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Part 1: Configure a Wireless Router

Step 1: Configure the Internet connection type on the wireless router

• Wireless Router GUI, set Internet connection type to static IP

• Configured IP address/subnet mask/default gateway

Step 2: Configure the network setup.

• Set router IP as the LAN address for the router

• Enable DHCP

Step 3: Configure wireless access and security.

• Set the network mode to Wireless-N Only
• Name the network(SSID) what you want your network to be called
• Disable SSID broadcast

• go to wireless security(still under the wireless tab
• Set security mode to WPA2 Personal
• set a passphrase

Part 2: Configure a Wireless Client

Step 1: Configure Laptop1 for wireless connectivity.

Because SSID broadcast is disabled, you must manually configure Laptop1 with the correct SSID and passphrase to establish a connection with the router.

• Create a new profile called Wireless Access

• Leave on Infrastructure Mode, and enter the name of your SSID

• choose obtain network settings automatically

• change the security to WPA2-Personal

• Enter your passphrase

• New Settings

Step 2: Verify Laptop1 wireless connectivity and IP addressing configuration.

• click more information

• connected laptop1!

Part 3: Connect to Wired Router and Web Server

Step 1: Configure the Wired Router with the correct IP addresses per the Table

• WirelessRouter0(Internet) ---> Router0(FastEthernet0/0)

• Router0(FastEthernet0/1) ---> WebServer(FastEthernet0)

• FastEthernet0/0

• FastEthernet0/1

• WebServer(FastEthernet0)

Step 2: Access Web server from the Laptops

TROUBLESHOOTING! Once I finsihed all the steps I was not able to reach the Web server on my Laptop1 web browser. There were a few things I did wrong. First I put the wrong IP address in the network setup of the wireless router. I put 192.168.0.1 instead of 192.168.0.100. Then I forgot to put the default gateway in the web server. I also connected the wireless router to router0 on the wrong port and then the router0 to webserver on the wrong port, I mixed them up. To find out these issues, I went into the command prompt in laptop1 did an IP config. The Ip address for the laptop was not a 192.168 address so I knew I must have configured it wrong.

The I did the command ipconfig /renew and was able to see my newly configured IP address

I tried pinging both the addresses on the Router0 and they didn't work, this was because they were connected on the wrong ports, so once I was switched the ports to be the correct IP addresses, the pings were successful.

The I then pinged both the address on Router0 and I got successful ping from both, which meant that the issue was most likely with the webserver itself.

After fixing all this I was able to access my webserver from the web browser on laptop1!

• Connect to webserver on laptop1

• Configure internet on Laptop2 and connect to network

TROUBLESHOOTING! I did not set the maximum amount of users on the wireless router to be more then 1 so it was only allowing one connection

• Configure internet on Laptop3 and connect to network