Journal 1

Date: 10-24-09 Labs for Chapter #: 1 and 2

Purpose of chapter labs:

Explain in your own words what you were to accomplish in these labs and at least two points
that you suspect are important to know to pass the associated CCNA exam.

In our labs we we’re suppose to get use to using CLI commands and setup our routers with
static routing. The 2 points that are important to passing my CCNA exam would be
knowing how to set up a router using CLI commands and knowing exactly how to set up a
static route.

Primary Commands Used:

List the commands used and their purpose in these labs. Include key configuration along with
show and debug commands that validate success/failure. Be sure to document by highlighting
and adding descriptive text to captured outcomes. Note: A copy of a configuration or a
captured debug, without description or analysis, doesn’t show any understanding of concepts.

Static Routing

Router(config)#ip route 192.168.3.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.2

Network I need to add to my routing table
Address of my next hop

Router(config)#do sh ip route
This is the command to check if the .3 network has been added to the table or not.

C 192.168.1.0/24 is directly connected, Serial0/0/0

C 192.168.2.0/24 is directly connected, FastEthernet0/0
S 192.168.3.0/24 [1/0] via 192.168.1.2
As you can see the .3 network has been added statically and it also shows how the router is
“connected” to the .3 network via the 192.168.1.2 connection between the routers.

Key Configurations:
In many of the labs a specific sequence of commands is needed to accomplish a task, such as
setting up a route filters. List the order and purpose of each step. This can be referenced to a
separate section of your journal.

Setting up IP address, subnet mask, clock rate, turning serial port on, and checking to see
if all is correct.

Router>en (Privileged EXEC mode)

Router#config t (global configuration mode)
Router(config)#int s 0/0/0 (Configure serial port 0)
Router(config-if)#ip address 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0 (setting ip address and subnet mask)
Router(config-if)#clock rate 56000 (set the clock rate for DCE side)
Router(config-if)#no shut (turning serial port 0 on)
Router(config-if)#do sh ip int brief (showing all interfaces)

What went right and what went wrong:

Labs may not always go the way you expect “problems”, and at other times you discover
something you weren’t expecting “cool!”. List the “problems” and “cools” you experienced
during this lab. List the symptoms, how you discovered it, and how you resolved it.

What went right was I was able to configure the routers and pc’s with the correct networks
and IP address. But my networks weren’t able to ping each other even after setting up
RIP. I found out that during the RIP process I was suppose to enter all the network that
was connected to the router. So I went back into each router and added the networks that
were missing. This solved my problem I was able to ping from pc to pc, router to pc, and
router to router over the whole network.

Summary of Results:
Summarize how this labs in this chapter may or may not help you in a job environment.

These labs give me practice in exactly what I will be doing in a real job environment.
Everything that I have done in these labs I am 100% certain I will do over and over again
when I get a job in the IT networking field.