Introduction.

Cisco Packet Tracer is a network emulator created by Cisco.

This application allows you to build networks on a variety of equipment in
arbitrary topologies with support for different protocols.
The Cisco Packet Tracer software solution allows you to simulate the
operation of various network devices: routers, switches, wireless access points,
personal computers, network printers, IP phones, etc. Working with an interactive
simulator gives you the feeling of setting up a real network, consisting of tens or
even hundreds of devices.
The settings, in turn, depend on the nature of the devices: some can be
configured using the commands of the Cisco IOS operating system, others through
the graphical web interface, and others through the command line of the operating
system or graphical menus.
Thanks to such a feature of Cisco Packet Tracer as the visualization mode, the
user can track the movement of data over the network, the appearance and change
of parameters of IP packets when data passes through network devices, the speed
and paths of IP packets. Analysis of events occurring in the network allows you to
understand the mechanism of its operation and detect faults.
Cisco Packet Tracer can be used not only as a simulator, but also as a network
application for simulating a virtual network over a real network, including the
Internet. Users of different computers, regardless of their location, can work on the
same network topology, adjusting it or fixing problems. This Cisco Packet Tracer
multi-user feature can be used for teamwork.
In Cisco Packet Tracer, the user can simulate the construction of not only a
logical, but also a physical network model and, therefore, gain design skills. A
network diagram can be superimposed on a drawing of a real building or even a
city and design its entire cable, place devices in certain buildings and premises
taking into account physical restrictions, such as the length and type of cable laid
or the radius of the wireless coverage area networks.
Simulation, visualization, multi-user, and design capabilities make Cisco
Packet Tracer a unique learning tool for networking.

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Section 1. Cisco Packet Tracer Interface

1.1. Cisco Packet Tracer Main Window

Figure 1.1. the program interface is presented, divided into areas.

Figure 1.1. Cisco Packet Tracer interface.

1. The main menu of the program with the following content:

• File - contains operations for opening / saving documents;
• Edit - standard operations "copy / cut, undo / redo";
• Settings - speaks for itself;
• View - scale of the work area and toolbar;
• Tools - color palette and customization of end devices;
• Extensions - project wizard, multi-user mode and several pribluds, which
from CPT (as I will sometimes affectionately call Cisco Packet Tracer) can
make a whole laboratory;
• Help - you will never guess what is contained there;
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2. Toolbar, some of which simply duplicate menu items;
3. Switch between logical and physical organization;
4. Another toolbar contains tools for selecting, deleting, moving, scaling objects, as
well as the formation of arbitrary packages;
5. Switch between real-time mode and simulation mode;
6. Panel with groups of end devices and communication lines;
7. The end devices themselves, here contain all kinds of switches, nodes, access
points, conductors.
8. Panel for creating custom scripts;
9. Work space.
An example of the placement of color areas (Figure 1.2), allowing, for example, to
visually separate one subnet from another.

Section 3. Network Services.

The Cisco Packet Tracer emulator allows you to configure such network services
as: HTTP, DHCP, TFTP, DNS, NTP, EMAIL, FTP as part of a network server.
Consider a tincture of some of them.
Laboratory work No. 3. Configuring network services.
Create the following network diagram shown in Fig. 3.1

Figure 3.1. Network diagram.

Task:
Configure the network as follows:
1 - Server1 - DNS and Web server;
2 - Server2 - DHCP server;

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3 - Computer PC1 receives TCP / IP protocol parameters from DHCP server and
opens www.rambler.ru website on Server1.

Stage 1.
Set the TCP / IP parameters on PC1 and servers.
Enter PC1 configuration and set the IP setting via DHCP server Figure 3.2.

Figure: 3.2. Setting up IP on PC 1.

Set the following IP settings in the server configuration:

Server1: IP address – 192.168.1.1, subnet mask - 255.255.255.0
Server2: IP address – 192.168.1.2, subnet mask - 255.255.255.0

Step 2. Configure DNS service on Server1.

To do this, in the Server1 configuration, go to the DNS tab and set two resource
records in the forward DNS zone:

1 - in the resource record of type A, bind the domain name of the computer with
its IP address in Fig.3.3 and click the ADD button:
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Figure 3.3. Entering a resource record of type A.
2 - in the resource record of the CNAME type, associate the site alias with the
computer (Figure 3.4):

Figure 3.4. Entering a resource record of type CNAME.

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In the Server1 configuration, go to the HTTP tab and set the start page of the
WWW.RAMBLER.RU website (Figure 3.5):

Figure 3.5. Site start page.

Enable Command Prompt on Server1 and test DNS service. To check the forward
zone of the DNS server, enter the command
SERVER>nslookup www.rambler.ru

If everything is correct, you will receive the response shown in Figure 3.6,
indicating the fully qualified domain name of the DNS server on the network and
its IP address.

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Figure: 3.6. DNS forward zone check.

Step 3. Configure DHCP service on Server2.

To do this, enter the Server2 configuration and configure the service on the DHCP
tab (Figure 3.7):

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Figure: 3.7. Setting up a DHCP server.

Stage 3. Checking the client's work.

Enter the PC1 host configuration on the desktop and on the command line
configure the TCP / IP protocol.
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PC>ipconfig /release

reset the old IP address parameters, and with the command:

PC>ipconfig /renew

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get new parameters from the DHCP server (fig 3.8):

Figure 3.8. Client TCP / IP protocol configuration.

Open the WWW.RAMBLER.RU website in a browser on the client (Figure 3.9):

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