DE LA SALLE UNIVERSITY – DASMARINAS
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, ARCHITETURE AND
TECHNOLOGY
ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING PROGRAM
Implementing Basic Connectivity
EXPERIMENT #1
SUBMITTED BY:
Villanueva, Kyle Janssen M.
ECE41
DS: 1/ 6 / 19
DP: 25/ 5 /19
ENGR. AMY LIWANAG
(INSTRUCTOR)
I. OBJECTIVES:
• Perform a Basic Configuration on S1 and S2
• Configure the PCs
• Configure the Switch Management Interface
II. Introduction
Background In this activity, you will first perform basic switch
configurations. Then, you will implement basic connectivity by
configuring IP addressing on switches and PCs. When the IP addressing
configuration is complete, you will use various show commands to
verify configurations and use the ping command to verify basic
connectivity between devices.
III. Subjective questions
1. How can you verify that both passwords were configured
correctly?
- After exiting the user EXEC mode the switch will force you to
provide a password to access the console then after that
another password will be required to access the privileged
EXEC mode. To verify one can use the command show run.
2. Step 5: Save the configuration file to NVRAM. Which command do
you issue to accomplish this step?
- S1# copy run start
3. Type the ping command and the IP address for S1 and press Enter.
Packet Tracer PC Command Line 1.0 PC> ping 192.168.1.253 Were
you successful? Explain.
- ping unsuccessful because the switches have not been
configured with an IP address.
4. Switches can be used as plug-and-play devices. This means that they
do not need to be configured for them to work. Switches
forward information from one port to another based on MAC
addresses. If this is the case, why would we configure it with an IP
address?
- We need to assign an IP address first in order to connect
remotely to a switch.
5. Why do you enter the no shutdown command?
- No shutdown command makes the interface in an active status
6. Which command is used to save the configuration file in RAM to
NVRAM?
- Copy running-config startup-config
IV. Data and Results
Perform a Basic Configuration on S1 and S2
Verify and Test Network Connectivity
Discussion
In this experiment we were tasked to create a connectivity
between two end devices which is PCA and PCB, but first we do
need to configure the two switches that bridges the two end
devices. We first configured the hostname (Switch1 to S1) by using
the CLI tab, by using exec mode we can change the basic
configurations inside the switch. We also configured the password
for the EXEC mode by using the command “ S1(config)# enable
secret”. Banner motd is also used in order for us to create a
written sign If someone attempts to access the network. The
configurations were saved using copy run start command. Once
the two switches were configured we proceed to change the ip
addresses of the 2 end devices. Then we create a VLAN for the
switches Unlike the routers that allow for management on any
configured interface, with switches you are not able to associate
IP addresses to the physical ports or interface; rather, you
associate the IP address to a virtual interface that is implicitly
created with a Virtual LAN (VLAN). This can be done by using the
command S1(config-if)#ip address 192.168.1.241 255.255.255.0. . By
doing this we successfully created a link between the two end
devices.
Conclusion
In conclusion, by using cisco one can configure different types of
network devices. As seen in this experiment we were able to
configure the password, hostname and even the VLAN ip addresses
for the two switches, and also changing the IP addresses for end
devices.
