Summary

In this lab, I charted out the subnetworks of a network that is split up into 6 subnetworks using variable length subnet masks. I determined the CIDR and then I figured out the Network Start and Broadcast address, as well as the first and last usable host addresses for each subnetwork. I then configured the the network and subnetworks in packet tracer

New things I learned

• In this lab, I learned about how to set up static routing on routers in packet tracer. You set the network IP to be the network address, use the correct subnet mask, and for the next hop, put the address of where you want data to be sent.

Problems/Issues

• For this lab, I didn’t run into any problems, and I charted all of the subnets correctly. One thing that I had to remember that I think is worth noting was to make sure to create a subnet to connect the Mumbai and North America subnetworks to each other.
• This lab was fairly easy and straightforward, except for one part. This one part was getting the two routers to connect and actually be able to forward packets to one another. I spent a lot of time messing around with settings and trying to figure out a way, and I eventually found static routing and put in information that made sense to me. I set up static routing on both routers by setting the network as 172.16.0.0 as the network, 255.255.0.0 as the subnet mask, and for the next hop I put the IP of the serial port of the other router. This worked and allowed for connections between the networks across the routers.