Small Enterprise Lab

• In this lab, we created a subnet from scratch for a small enterprise network. First, we had to create a subnet with vlans pictured here.

• Once we created a subnet, we began formulating our network. Our network would consist of a hospital switch configured to be a router at the top. We would need to configure routing on this router. The next layer down would contain three switches, a north, south, and data center switch. DNS and DHCP servers would be connected to the data center switch. Below theses switches, we have another three switches for north, south, and counseling centers. Attached to these switches are our end devices. Next, we have to configure DHCP and DNS and connect all of our devices to get a final working network.

• The final network can be found here Lab 4-1 : Screenshot

Difficulties

• I didn't have to many problems with this lab. I did get stuck on one part, where I had configured everything but my DHCP server could not ping its gateway at VLAN 1. The solution was turning VLAN 1 on, because by default it is off for some reason. To do this, on the router CLI I accessed vlan 1 with interface vlan 1 and then turned it on with no shutdown. This solved my issue.