In this Lab we took our first steps to building a small enterprise network

Objectives

• Be comfortable with the lab environment
• Learn how to configure our own firewall that can separate our student local area network from others in the class
• Learn how to configure a single workstation running Windows 10 and have it communicate with the internet

Setup notes

Fire Wall setup
Windows 10 workstation setup

3 Expanded Ideas

Three tech terms from the lecture or lab which were interesting, and expand on them (background, new features/directions, pros/cons, etc.), and reference creditable sources you used.

• WAN - WAN stands for wide area network, and it was created in the late 50s by the U.S. Air Force to interconnect sites in the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) radar defense system. Essentially a WAN is a collection of networks, such as LANs, that can communicate with one another. A popular example of a WAN is the Internet, with the Internet also being the worlds largest WAN.

(SOURCE: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/switches/what-is-a-wan-wide-area-network.html)

• LAN - A LAN stands for a local area network, it was developed in the 60s for use by research facilities, colleges, and universities to connect computers to other computers. A LAN is a group of devices that are connected by one physical location (home, school, business, etc.). LANs can scale comfortably, it can be as large as an enterprise network with lots of users and devices or just one user and one device. There are also virtual LANs that allow administrators to group network nodes into their own networks without much hassle, creating a LAN in a LAN.

(SOURCE: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/switches/what-is-a-lan-local-area-network.html)

• Network Adapter - A network adapter, commonly shortened to NIC, is a card that plugs into the computer to enable it to receive and transmit data on a LAN. In the modern world it the term refers to an Ethernet adapter, but in the past it referred to a Token Ring. Typically NICs are generally only used in high-end machines when you need faster Ethernet speeds.

(SOURCE: https://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/term/network-adapter)