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Lab 4-1 Observing ARP in Packet Tracer

Overview:

In this lab, you will use Packet Tracer to simulate a small network consisting of 4 computers and a switch. You will examine the address table of the switch and ARP tables of the computers. Then you will initiate some communication between the machines and watch the frames. Analysis of the frame contents will help understand how ARP and Ethernet work

Goals:

• To become familiar with Cisco's network emulator tool - Packet Tracer
• To gain some more exposure to Address Resolution Protocol and Ethernet and develop a deeper understanding of the relationship between these two protocols.

Summary:

In this lab, I used Cisco Packet Tracer to build a simple network of four PCs and a switch, configured each of the PCs' IP addresses and netmasks, and see what MAC addresses the switch received from the PCs. Some useful instructions was learning how to configure the IP address for a PC. No problems were encountered in this lab, very straight forward.