Summary

In this lab, I configured four different VLANs in packet tracer, simulating four floors and four departments, with one computer for each department on each floor. I used port based VLANs.

New things I learned

• In this lab, I learned about how to configure port based VLANS using switches.
  • You can set up VLANs in the configuration of a switch, and then manually assign ports to a VLAN.
  • You can also set up Trunk ports for the VLAN that connect to all the VLANs
• Access ports are used for the computers and trunk ports are used for connecting switches.
• Setting up VLANs is a good way to split up a network into different part. It can also control what has access to what.

Problems/Issues

• For this lab, I didn’t run into any problems. The only troubleshooting that I did was that I used DHCP for the computers to save time while I was taking the quiz.