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

purpose. Check your documentation. Don’t have any documentation? Go out to
the web and download it.
2. Set up the IP addresses and masks on each workstation. No gateway number is
needed because no single device acts as a gateway.
3. Ping from each workstation to each other.
4. Enable file sharing on each computer. Pick something different on each computer
to share…a drive, a folder, or several folders.
5. You should be able to access the files from computer to computer now using
network neighborhood. If you cannot “see” the icon for the other computer then
go out to DOS and try to ping them. If you can ping them then use the “Find
computer option in Windows Explorer” to manually bring them up in Network
Neighborhood (gotta love that quirky Microsoft in small networks).
If it doesn’t work then check everything you have done so far and reboot
everything.
Supplemental Lab or Additional Activities:
1. Try to add in another computer with an IP address of 172.16.1.2 and a mask of
255.255.255.0. Do you think it will work? What happens when you try to find it
on the network? Ping it? Share files with it?
2. Put in two computers with the same IP address. What kind of message do you
see? Does it appear on one workstation or multiple ones?
So What Have I Learned Here?
You have learned how to hook up several workstations to share files using multiple hubs.
You learned that the IP addresses had to be within the same subnet in order to
communicate with each other. As you build larger and larger networks you can see
where planning for IP addresses is important. Errors make the network act weird. Also
you were acquainted with the quirks of Microsoft networking for small networks.
Microsoft really likes having that hub out there to work
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