Learning by Doing: CISCO Certified Network ... - SCN Research

Step-by-Step Instructions:
You are the network administrator for a small hospital in Vermont. The changeover from
one hospital management group to another has caused massive cut-backs throughout the
hospital staff and resources. You have been told to reduce or eliminate your expenditures
and that all purchases are on hold. The only problem is you really, really needed that
new server to set up a website/intranet for the staff. Heck, it would have really made
your life so much better, but you just do not have the funds now. Since you remembered
you can set up routers to act as DHCP servers you came up with an ingenious plan to
cannibalize your DHCP server (and make it your new web server) and decided to “make
it so.” Geeze, your boss will be wondering how you still managed to make it all work
even with out the new server, right? No, they will probably cut you back more. Welcome
to life on Dilbert’s side. So your task is to:
1. Design a network addressing scheme using private IP addresses. The router on
the far left of the diagram above should be the dhcp router/server. Each Ethernet
interface should have a different private IP address class.
2. Cable the lab as shown.
3. Complete the basic router setup on each router.
4. Configure the interfaces on each router.
5. Configure the routing protocol and advertise the router’s networks.
6. Configure DHCP and IP helper.
7. Hang a loopback interface off the dhcp router with an address of 1.1.1.1 to
“simulate” web access.
8. Setup the workstations with IP address, subnet masks, and gateways addresses.
You will need to reboot the workstations.
9. Test connectivity from all workstations to the others.
So What Have I Learned Here?
In this lab you learned how to apply your knowledge of routing and DHCP. In those
“other” lab books you never really get a change to think for yourself. Here, instead of
mindlessly cranking out commands step-by-step you have to use your brain. Let’s just
hope you have enough Dew to stay awake.
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