Configure Static Routing is the routing that network administrator configures the network routers manually, instead of using routing protocols RIP, OSPF, etc. which utilized in the dynamic routing. The benefits of static routing are minimum bandwidth usage, no overhead on router CPU and much more and perfect for a small network with a few routers. But it is not without cons. It ‘s hard to configure all routers manually in the vast network and troubleshooting is always harder than configuration.

As a network administrator or student of CCNA, you must know the configuration of static routing. It helps you understand the process and functions of routing in the network apparently.

Configure Static Routing Using Cisco Packet Tracer

To perform this task, you must create a lab and configure the basic IP addressing for all PCs and Routers or download my CCNA Lab – Static Route with Cisco packet tracer. CCNA Lab – Static Route – no Configure.

I have configured the Static Route the same as the screenshot, and it is not yet configured routing. You must configure it with below step by step Static Routing guide.

Static Routing command syntax: Ip route [destination network address] [mask] [next hop address or interface name]

1. In the R1 type the following commands to introduce two LANs 192.168.10.0/24 and 192.168.30.0/24 for Router 1.

R1(config)#ip route 192.168.30.0 255.255.255.0 10.10.20.2 150
R1(config)#ip route 192.168.10.0 255.255.255.0 10.10.10.2 150

2. Router2: Add three networks for router 2 and be sure that do not configure it with wrong IP address.

R2(config)#ip route 192.168.10.0 255.255.255.0 10.10.10.1 150
R2(config)#ip route 10.10.10.0 255.255.255.0 10.10.20.1 150
R2(config)#ip route 192.168.20.0 255.255.255.0 10.10.20.1 150

3. Router3: Do the same as router 2 but with different destination and exit interface address.

R3(config)#ip route 192.168.30.0 255.255.255.0 10.10.20.1 150
R3(config)#ip route 10.10.20.0 255.255.255.0 10.10.10.1 150
R3(config)#ip route 192.168.20.0 255.255.255.0 10.10.10.1 150

So it’s easy and not too much difficulty. If you want to accomplish this task, firstly you must try to understand the concept of routing and then try to configure it.

You can download the complete Static Routing Lab from the link below and look at the routing configuration with ‘show ip route or show run‘ commands.  CCNA Lab – Static Route. If you have any question, please feel free to ask us.

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This is how to configure VLAN on Cisco Switch or Virtual LAN on Cisco Switches in your network. A VLAN is a switched network that is logically segmented by function, project team, or application, without regard to the physical locations of the users. VLANs have the same attributes as physical LANs, but you can group computers even if they are not physically located on the same LAN segment. Any switch port can belong to a VLAN, and unicast, broadcast, and multicast packets are forwarded and flooded only to end stations in the VLAN.

Each VLAN is considered a logical network, and packets destined for stations that do not belong to the VLAN must be forwarded through a router or bridge or layer 3 switches. Because a VLAN is considered a separate logical network.

Here we just configure VLAN on Cisco switch and not talking about VTP, STP, and other advanced Switching techniques. It is the basic VLAN configuration. Read more about VLAN on Cisco Packet Tracer CCNA Lab.

How to Configure VLAN on Cisco Switch?

Let’s start to configure VLAN on Cisco switch using Cisco Packet Tracer. You can download the VLAN Lab or create your lab within Cisco packet tracer or other network simulators.

1. Open the VLAN lab and create these three VLAN and named Marketing, Accounting, and Sales. So let’s create them with the following commands.

2. First, change the switch name with “hostname” command.

Switch>enable 
Switch#configure terminal 
Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z.
Switch(config)#hostname SW2
SW2(config)#

3. Now create the VLANs using “VLAN” command.

SW2(config)#vlan 2
SW2(config-vlan)#name Marketing 
SW2(config-vlan)#vlan 3
SW2(config-vlan)#name Accounting 
SW2(config-vlan)#vlan 4
SW2(config-vlan)#name Sales
SW2(config-vlan)#

4. Just type the “do sh vlan” command from config mod to see whether VLANs are created or not.

You see the VLANs are created successfully.

5. Now try to add interfaces to each of these VLANs. All the Interfaces ports are within the default VLAN and not yet grouped to Marketing, Accounting, and Sales. So try to add an interface to a VLAN with the “Switchport” command.

SW2(config)#interface fastEthernet 0/5
SW2(config-if)#switchport mode access 
SW2(config-if)#switchport access vlan 2
SW2(config-if)#exit
SW2(config)#interface fastEthernet 0/6
SW2(config-if)#switchport mode access 
SW2(config-if)#switchport access vlan 2
SW2(config-if)#

I have added the [fastEthernet 0/5] and [fastEthernet 0/6] to VLAN 2 which is our Marketing VLAN. In this method, we add each interface one by one, but you can use “Interface range” command to add a group of ports to a VLAN.

SW2(config)#interface range fastEthernet 0/2-4
SW2(config-if-range)#switchport mode access 
SW2(config-if-range)#switchport access vlan 4

6. Finally type “do sh vlan” and see the result again.

Now you can set up VLAN on your network Switches. The next step is configuring Inter-VLAN Routing. I hope you find this article helpful and do comment us about the qualities and improvements of Technig articles.

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Configure DHCP on Cisco Router. Last week we published a topic about installation and configuration of DHCP Server in Windows Server 2012 R2. We have introduced the DHCP Server “Install and Configure DHCP Server on Windows Server 2012 R2” and told the necessary services and network protocols requirement if you don’t know the basic of DHCP Server? you must read the article first.

Create and Configure a CCNA Lab within Cisco Packet Tracer.

Download the DHCP configuration in Cisco router lab of packet tracer from the end of this post or try to create your own network lab with two routers and their LAN networks and then configure it with the following step by step guide.

Configure the Router 1 with below IP address and initial configuration. I assume you know and understand the basic router and Switch configuration clearly. So no need to explain the functions of the basic router and switch commands line.

Router>enable
Router#configure terminal
Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z.

Router(config)#hostname R1
R1(config)#interface serial 0/0/0
R1(config-if)#ip address 10.10.10.1 255.255.255.252
R1(config-if)#no shutdown

R1(config-if)#clock rate 64000
R1(config-if)#

For Router 2, configure the same interface serial 0/0/0 and FastEthernet 0/0 with the following commands.

Router>enable
Router#configure terminal
Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z.
Router(config)#hostname R2
R2(config)#interface serial 0/0/0
R2(config-if)#ip address 10.10.10.2 255.255.255.252
R2(config-if)#no shutdown

R2(config-if)#

R2(config)#interface fastEthernet 0/0
R2(config-if)#ip address 192.168.10.1 255.255.255.0
R2(config-if)#no shutdown

Configure DHCP on Cisco Router Using Packet Tracer

Let’s configure Router 2 as DHCP Server and set the clients to get their IP address from DHCP Server in Cisco Router.

In the R2 while you are in the config mode, type the command ‘IP DHCP excluded-address 192.168.10.1 192.168.10.20‘ and then press enter. This command ‘ip dhcp excluded-address’ will create an exclusive range of IP addresses which reserved for Network Servers and DHCP Server will not assign them to clients.

The ‘ip dhcp pool‘ command creates a pool for a network. You can create many pools on a router for all Local area network that connected to the router.

R2>enable
R2#configure terminal
Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z.
R2(config)#ip dhcp excluded-address 192.168.10.1 192.168.10.20
R2(config)#ip dhcp pool Technig_Clients
R2(dhcp-config)#
R2(dhcp-config)#network 192.168.10.0 255.255.255.0
R2(dhcp-config)#default-router 192.168.10.1
R2(dhcp-config)#dns-server 192.168.10.100
R2(dhcp-config)#

Now go to client setting and set the IP Configuration to DHCP and see the client get a new IP address from DHCP Server.

So that’s it, configure DHCP on Cisco router within a minute! Simple and easy.

DHCP Relay on Cisco Router

Remember some DHCP options (DHCP Relay Agent) when you need to provide IP addresses from a DCHP server to clients that are outside of your network or are not in the same Local Area Network. You must use the ‘ip helper-address‘ to forward the DHCP client requests to the remote host.

Configure the R1 to relay the DHCP client request. It does not work without routing. So configure Routers with static or dynamic routing. Here I’m testing with RIP.

R1>enable
R1#configure terminal
Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z.
R1(config)#interface fastEthernet 0/0
R1(config-if)#ip helper-address 10.10.10.2
R1(config-if)#exit

R1(config)#router rip
R1(config-router)#network 10.10.10.0
R1(config-router)#network 192.168.30.0
R1(config-router)#exit

Go to the client IP configuration setting and see the forwarded request by DHCP Server.

Hope you learn the configuration of the DHCP Server on the Cisco Router and Download the DHCP on Cisco Router Packet Tracer.

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Here is the complete guide to new CCNA v3 exams. Its combination of two topics, one by CBTNugget and the other is by reddit. So read and watch it carefully and find out what is new in CCNA v3 and what should you do for upgrading your CCNA certifications?

The Cisco usually refreshes their flagship certifications every few years, and Tuesday they announced a version update to CCNA Routing and Switching. Cisco expert Jeremy Cioara spent a few minutes at the beginning of his webinar Building a Technology Lab to talk about the changes to CCNA v3, what they mean, and when we’ll update our training.

In this short video, Jeremy covers the changes you should expect in the new ICND1 100-105, ICND2 200-105, and CCNA 200-125:

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CCNA is one of the top paying IT certifications, a Cisco certified network associate with most valuable routing and switching knowledge. I have collect the step by step guides of CCNA articles in this post, named Packet Tracer CCNA Practical Labs for those who are new in CCNA.

The best way to learn about networking is to do it. Hands-on equipment gets students started, but is limited to the number of devices in the lab. That’s why the Cisco Networking Academy curriculum includes Cisco Packet Tracer, an innovative network configuration simulation tool used for teaching, gaming, and assessment. Cisco Packet tracer is a network simulator software for CCNA exams preparation. This simulation software will help you quickly create a lab and start configuring like a real Cisco devices. It support most routing, switching, wireless, and basic firewall devices with latest IOS.

Cisco Packet Tracer CCNA Practical Labs

The labs are downloadable with step by step configuration guide. To practice and test this labs, you need to have Cisco packet tracer installed on your computer.

1. Configure Static Routing in Packet Tracer

• A complete guides to configure static routing that network administrator need to configure the network routers manually instead of using routing protocols, RIP or OSPF. The benefits of static routing is minimum bandwidth usage, no overhead on router CPU and many more and perfect for small network with a few routers. But it is not without cons. Difficult to configure all routers manually in the large network and troubleshooting is always harder than configuration.

2. How to Configure Routing Information Protocol (RIP)

• This is about how to configure Routing Information Protocol (RIP) on the Cisco Routers. The RIP is one of the oldest distance-vector routing protocols and work perfectly with IPv4. The next generation of routing information protocol for IPv6 is know as RIPng (RIP next generation). So in this article we are going to test the RIP with IPv4.

3. How to Configure OSPF Routing Protocol

• Configuration of OSPF routing protocol is easy as RIP Routing. The Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) is a routing protocol for wide area networks and enterprise network. OSPF is perhaps the most widely used interior gateway protocol (IGP) in large enterprise networks. The IS-IS, is another link-state dynamic routing protocol, which is more common in large service provider networks. The most widely used exterior gateway protocol is the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), the principal routing protocol between autonomous systems on the Internet.

4. How to Configure DHCP on Cisco Router?

• Configure DHCP on Cisco Router. The last week we had send a topic about installation and configuration of DHCP Server in Windows Server 2012 R2. We have introduced the DHCP Server and told the necessary services and network protocols requirement. If you don’t know the basic of DHCP Server? you must read the article first.

5. How to Configure Standard Access List On Cisco Router?

• The Standard Access List (ACL) on Cisco router works to permit or deny the entire network protocols of a host from being distinguishing. These decisions are all based on source IP address which filter network traffic by examining the source IP address in a packet. We can create the standard IP access list by using the access-list command with numbers 1 to 99 or in the expanded range of 1300 to 1999.

6. Configure VLAN on Cisco Switches Using Cisco Packet Tracer

•  Configuring VLAN or Virtual Local area network on Cisco Switches is a most important subject of CCNA exam. A VLAN is a switched network that is logically segmented by function, project team, or application, without regard to the physical locations of the users. VLANs have the same attributes as physical LANs, but you can group computers even if they are not physically located on the same LAN segment. Any switch port can belong to a VLAN, and unicast, broadcast, and multicast packets are forwarded and flooded only to end stations in the VLAN. Each VLAN is considered a logical network, and packets destined for stations that do not belong to the VLAN must be forwarded through a router or bridge or layer 3 switches. Because a VLAN is considered a separate logical network.

7. Configure Inter VLAN Routing on a Cisco Router and Layer 3 Switches

• This is another Packet Tracer CCNA Practical Labs about how to configure Inter VLAN Routing on the Cisco router or layer 3 switches? Basically on a VLAN no host can communicate with hosts within other VLANs. It means only hosts that are members of the same VLAN can communicate with each other. So if you want your VLANs hosts can communicate with each others, you must configure inter VLAN routing using a router or a layer 3 switch. Here we completely show you the Inter-VLAN configuration using a Cisco router and a layer 3 switch.

8. How to Enable Telnet and SSH on Cisco Router and Switches?

• This article focus on configuring and enabling telnet and ssh on Cisco routers and switches. The Telnet is an old and non secure application protocol of remote control services. You can configure telnet on all Cisco switches and routers with the following step by step guides. But it’s not the best way on the wide area network. However we just going to enable telnet and ssh to test them for CCNA Certification exams.

9. Configure SNMP Protocol on Cisco Packet Tracer?

• Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is used for network monitoring and management. It is made up of 3 parts, the SNMP manager, SNMP agent and Management Information Base (MIB). In Packet Tracer there is not a lot you can actually do with SNMP but it is possible to set up a router or switch as an SNMP agent and use a PC or laptop as an MIB browser. So although you can’t set SNMP traps or informs it is still a valuable learning tool to show the sort of information that can be retrieved and even a few things that can be set on an SNMP agent.

10. Configure Frame Relay In Cisco Router Using Packet Tracer

• Frame relay is a packet-switching protocol for connecting devices on a Wide Area Network (WAN). Here we are going to show you, how to configure Frame relay in Cisco routers using Cisco Packet Tracker. The Frame relay originally designed for transport across Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) infrastructure, it may be used today in the context of many other network interfaces. Read more about Frame relay on Wikipedia.

It’s not all, we will updates this post with fresh new articles related to CCNA as Packet Tracer CCNA Practical Labs.

If you have any questions about Packet Tracer CCNA Practical Labs post, feel free to ask and suggest us about how we can improve out topic and site services. So wish you success and all the best for achieving your CCNA certification.

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Frame relay is a packet-switching protocol for connecting devices on a Wide Area Network (WAN). Here we are going to show you, how to configure Frame relay in Cisco routers using Cisco Packet Tracker. The Frame relay originally designed for transport across Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) infrastructure, it may be used today in the context of many other network interfaces. Read more about Frame relay on Wikipedia.

Create your Lab within Cisco Packet Tracer or download Fram relay Lab which I have created for this article. Download CCNA Lab – Frame relay. This is not configured yet, but you must try to configure it step by step according to article.

How to Configure Frame Relay

1. Open the Frame relay lab which you have downloaded and configure Frame relay the same as screenshot.

Try to configure the serial interfaces of the Frame Relay switch like below screenshot.

2. On Serial0 of Frame relay switch add the following DLCI and named with router name or anything you want.

3. Add the DLCI 201 and named R1-R0 on Serial1 interfaces like the screenshot. Do the same for Serial2 and Serial3 interfaces, only change the DLCI number 202, 203 and names R2-R0 and R3-R0.

4. Now configure frame relay like the screenshot. Don’t miss configure, it will not work.

That’s it, now try to configure R0 router and create three sub-interfaces for each router. If you don’t know to create sub-interface, try to read inter VLAN routing article.

Configure R0:

Create Sub-Interfaces:

Configure Router R1:

Configure Router R2:

Configure Router R3:

The configuration is completed successfully.

Try to configure the router 1, 2 and 3 with static routing or Rip Routing in order to communicate with each others.

If your lab won’t work correctly, download the configured frame relay Lab which work perfectly and troubleshoot frame relay. In case of any problem regarding to Fram Relay configuration on Cisco devices, ask your question through comment.

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How to configure SNMP protocol on Packet Tracer? The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is used for network monitoring and management. It is made up of 3 parts, the SNMP manager, SNMP agent and Management Information Base (MIB). In Packet Tracer, there is not a lot you can actually do with SNMP but it is possible to set up a router or switch as an SNMP agent and use a PC or laptop as a MIB browser. So although you can’t set SNMP traps or informs it is still a valuable learning tool to show the sort of information that can be retrieved and even a few things that can be set on an SNMP agent.

How to Configure SNMP Protocol?

Now, try to configure SNMP Protocol on Cisco router and using a PC as Management Information Base MIB. So download the Configure SNMP Protocol Lab or create your own lab within Cisco Packet Tracer or GNS3.

1. Enable SNMP on Router (R1) 

Open the R1 console and configure SNMP Protocol with the following router command. Before configuring SNMP, you must configure the basic configure like, setting up the IP address and basic routing configuration.

2. Testing SNMP from a PC

OK, the SNMP has been configured on R1 router. Now try to test it from the PC1 using MIB Browser.

Click on PC1 and click the Desktop tab, then open MIB Browser. 

On the opened MIB browser page, click Advanced tab to open the Advanced page.

Enter the information like the screenshot or below table.

Address: 192.168.10.1. This is the R1 IP address.

Read Community: R1. It has taken from the read-only (ro) community name.

Write Community: R1rw, it is the name of reading and writes (rw) community.

From the SNMP Version, select V3 and click OK. 

Now on the MIB browser page expend MIB tree to the system and select each value then hit the GO button to display the exact information on Router1.

That’s all, configure SNMP Protocol on routers or switches. Hope your find this article helpful.

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This article is going to shows the CCNA students to configure and enable telnet and ssh on Cisco router and switches. The Telnet is an old and non-secure application protocol for remote control services. You can configure telnet on all Cisco switches and routers with the following step by step guides. But it’s not the best way to the wide-area network. However, we just going to enable telnet and ssh to test them for CCNA Certification exams.

Enable Telnet and SSH on Cisco Router

To enable telnet on Cisco router, simply do it with “line vty” command. First of the first download the CCNA Lab to Enable Telnet and SSH on Cisco Router from Telnet and SSH Lab. The Lab is configured with DHCP server and all clients get an IP address from DHCP Server on Router.

Go to router R1 console and configure telnet with “line vty” command.

R1>enable 
R1#configure terminal 
Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z.
R1(config)#line vty 0 
R1(config-line)#password Pass123
R1(config-line)#login 
R1(config-line)#logging synchronous 
R1(config-line)#exec-timeout 40
R1(config-line)#motd banner $Admin Access Only$ 
R1(config-line)#exit 
R1(config)#

• The “line vty” command enable the telnet and the “0″ is just let a single line or session to the router. If you need more session simultaneously, you must type “line vty 0 10“.
• The “password” command set the “Pass123” as a password for telnet. You can set your own password.
• The “login” command authenticate and ask you the password of telnet. If you type “no login” command, the telnet never authenticates for the password which is not a good practice in a real network environment.
• The “logging synchronous” command stops any message output from splitting your typing.
• The “exec-timeout” command just sets the time-out limit on the line from the default to “40″ minutes.
• The motd-banner forces a banner message to appear when logging in.

OK, the Telnet services enabled successfully. But you must set the enable password for the router in order to control it remotely.

R1(config)#enable password Password
R1(config)#exit

Testing Telnet Connectivity

Now from a client PC test the telnet connectivity and to ensure that it works fine or not yet. If it does not work, try to troubleshoot telnet errors.

Let’s test telnet from the admin PC. Type telnet 192.168.10.1 and press enter, then enter the telnet password. Next type enable command and press enter, then type the router password.

Packet Tracer PC Command Line 1.0
PC>telnet 192.168.10.1
Trying 192.168.10.1 ...Open

User Access Verification

Password: 
R1>enable 
Password: 
R1#

Now you are remotely connected to router R1 and you can execute all router commands through a telnet command-line interface.

If you need more information about Telnet commands and options, from the config-line mode type “?“, the question mark will display all telnet commands.

That is it, the telnet services configuration on Cisco router.

2. Enable Telnet and SSH: SSH Configuration.

Secure Shell or SSH is a secure protocol and the replacement for Telnet and other insecure remote shell protocols. So for secure communication between network devices, I strongly recommend using SSH instead of Telnet.

Configure SSH on Cisco routers and switches with the below step by step guide to SSH configuration.

1. Open the router R1 console line and create domain and username.

R1(config)#ip domain-name Technig.com
R1(config)#username Shais Password Pass123
R1(config)#

Then “IP domain-name” command creates a domain and named Technig.com.

The “username Shais Password Pass123” command just create a username “Shais” with “Pass123” password.

2. If you don, just follow and generate the encryption keys for securing the ssh session.

R1(config)#crypto key generate rsa 
The name for the keys will be: R1.Technig.com
Choose the size of the key modulus in the range of 360 to 2048 for your
General Purpose Keys. Choosing a key modulus greater than 512 may take
a few minutes.

How many bits in the modulus [512]: 1024
% Generating 1024 bit RSA keys, keys will be non-exportable...[OK]

R1(config)#

Type “crypto key generate rsa” command and press enter when asking you “How many bits in the modulus [512]:” just type “1024″ and press enter. The system will generate 1024 bits keys to secure session lines. You can choose modules in the range of 360 to 2048.

3. Now enable SSH version 2, set timeout duration and login attempt time on the router. Remember this message if you going to use ssh version 2 “Please create RSA keys (of at least 768 bits size) to enable SSH v2.”

R1(config)#ip ssh version 2
R1(config)#ip ssh time-out 50
R1(config)#ip ssh authentication-retries 4

4. Enable vty lines and configure access protocols.

R1(config)#line vty 0
R1(config-line)#transport input ssh 
R1(config-line)#password Pass123
R1(config-line)#login 
R1(config-line)#logging synchronous 
R1(config-line)#motd-banner 
R1(config-line)#exit
R1(config)#

The configuration is the same as telnet, just the transport input ssh command change the line to Secure Shell. The configuration has completed, next, you must test ssh from a client PC.

Testing SSH Connectivity

From a client PC, open the command line and type “ssh -l Shais 192.168.10.1” then press enter.

Packet Tracer PC Command Line 1.0
PC>ssh -l Shais 192.168.10.1
Open
Password:

R1>enable 
Password: 
R1#configure terminal 
Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z.
R1(config)#

Here, I have connected successfully and the connection is secured with Secure Shell.

Hope you understand the configuration of enabling Telnet and SSH on Cisco router and switches. Now you should be able to simply enable Telnet and SSH on your routers and switches.

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Another post related to CCNA Certification and this time learn how to configure OSPF routing? The configuration of the OSPF routing protocol is easy as RIP Routing. The Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) is a routing protocol for wide area networks and enterprise network. OSPF is perhaps the most widely used interior gateway protocol (IGP) in large enterprise networks. The IS-IS is another link-state dynamic routing protocol, which is more common in large service provider networks. The most widely used exterior gateway protocol is the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), the principal routing protocol between autonomous systems on the Internet.

OSPF Routing Lab Configuration

Download the lab from this post or create your own OSPF Routing Lab and try to learn OSPF Routing configuration using this step by step guide.

Router 1: Do the basic configuration of your routers, switches and computers. Set the IP address for each interface the same as a screenshot. The diagram is classless IP addresses and sub-netted to many networks. So it means you must familiar with IP sub-netting and VLSM.

R1>enable
R1#configure terminal
Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z.
R1(config)#interface serial 1/3
R1(config-if)#ip address 20.10.10.1 255.255.255.252
R1(config-if)#no shutdown
R1(config-if)#exit
R1(config)#
R1(config)#interface serial 1/1
R1(config-if)#ip address 10.10.10.1 255.255.255.252
R1(config-if)#clock rate 64000
R1(config-if)#no shutdown
R1(config-if)#exit
R1(config)#
R1(config)#interface serial 1/0
R1(config-if)#ip address 10.10.10.5 255.255.255.252
R1(config-if)#clock rate 64000
R1(config-if)#no shutdown

Router 2: Do the following configuration for Router 2.

R2(config)#interface serial 1/0
R2(config-if)#ip address 10.10.10.6 255.255.255.252
R2(config-if)#no shutdown
R2(config-if)#exit
R2(config)#interface fastEthernet 0/0
R2(config-if)#ip address 192.168.10.1 255.255.255.0
R2(config-if)#no shutdown

Router 3: Now try to set IP address for Router 3 interfaces also.

Router#enable
Router#configure terminal
Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z.
Router(config)#hostname R3
R3(config)#interface serial 1/0
R3(config-if)#ip address 10.10.10.2 255.255.255.252
R3(config-if)#no shutdown
R3(config-if)#exit
R3(config)#interface fastEthernet 0/0
R3(config-if)#ip address 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0
R3(config-if)#no shutdown

Good, the basic configuration has competed and now start configure OSPF routing protocol on this network.

How to Configure OSPF Routing Protocol?

The Lab is ready for routing, download and configures OSPF routing with the following step by step guide. In router, R1 configure OSFP routing with Router OSPF command.

R1>enable
R1#configure terminal
Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z.
R1(config)#router ospf 1
R1(config-router)#network 20.10.10.0 0.0.0.3 area 0
R1(config-router)#network 10.10.10.0 0.0.0.3 area 0
R1(config-router)#network 10.10.10.4 0.0.0.3 area 0
R1(config-router)#

The router OSPF command enables OSPF routing on the router, and the 1 before OSFP is the process ID of the OSFP Protocol. You can set different process id from “1-65535” for each router.

The network command with network ID “network 20.10.10.0” is the network identifier, and the “ 0.0.0.3″ is the wildcard mask of 20.10.10.0 network. Wildcard mask determines which interfaces to advertise because OSPF advertises interfaces, not networks.

Now go to Router R3 and configure with the following commands.

R3>enable
R3#configure terminal
Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z.
R3(config)#router ospf 1
R3(config-router)#network 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.255 area 0
R3(config-router)#network 10.10.10.0 0.0.0.3 area 0

Don? So do the following for router R2.

R2>enable
R2#configure terminal
Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z.
R2(config)#router ospf 1
R2(config-router)#network 192.168.10.0 0.0.0.255 area 0
R2(config-router)#network 10.10.10.4 0.0.0.3 area 0

OK, OSPF routing configuration has been finished successfully, now test your network whether they can ping with each other or not. In my Lab they work perfect, you can download and see the result. Configure OSPF Routing Protocol – Complete Lab.

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Today I’m going to show you, how to configure Routing Information Protocol (RIP) on the Cisco Routers. The RIP is one of the oldest distance-vector routing protocols and work perfectly with IPv4. The next generation of routing information protocol for IPv6 is know as RIPng (RIP next generation). So in this article we are going to test the RIP with IPv4.

It would be good if you have a physical Cisco lab for testing RIP, otherwise you can use GNS3 ,  Cisco Packet Tracer or equivalent network simulator software.  Here I’m using packet tracer and the Cisco RIP  routing lab I have created is downloadable from the below link. Just download and configure the basic routing with the IP addresses which assigned for each router interfaces. It help your to practice some basic router commands also. I’m sure you can do it, but in case of requiring some help, read the basic router commands from this post.

Downlaod the non configured Routing RIP Protocol lab that need basic configuration and this one Routing RIP Protocol – CCNA Lab -Ready for RIP Lab for CCNA is configured with basic and essential configuration.

 Configure Routing Information Protocol (RIP)

So let’s start configure routing information protocol in this lab. Go to your lab and open the router 1 (R1) which is the main router connected to ISP router. Do the following command for RIP Routing.

R1>enable
R1#configure terminal
Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z.
R1(config)#router rip
R1(config-router)#version 2
R1(config-router)#network 200.100.10.0
R1(config-router)#network 192.168.20.0
R1(config-router)#network 10.10.10.0
R1(config-router)#

After enabling router with enable command then go to privileged mode with configure terminal command. Now with router rip command, enable routing for all routers. The version 2 command, configure routing information protocol with version two. And next set all network id like the above network command. I have set all three network which connect directly to R1.

Now go to router R2 and configure routing protocol the same as router R1. On router 2 you must assign the network ids of all connected network the R2.

R2>enable 
R2#configure terminal 
Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z.
R2(config)#router rip 
R2(config-router)#version 2
R2(config-router)#network 10.10.10.0
R2(config-router)#network 192.168.10.0
R2(config-router)#network 192.168.1.0
R2(config-router)#

For ISP router, just enter the network id 200.100.10.0, because only one network connected to ISP router.

ISP>enable
ISP#configure terminal
Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z.
ISP(config)#router rip
ISP(config-router)#version 2
ISP(config-router)#network 200.100.10.0
ISP(config-router)#

OK, your routing task with RIP is accomplished successfully, now all network devices can communicate with each other without any problem through routing information protocol. Test them with ping command and be sure they must ping correctly. If they are not ping with each other, so your routing has some problem. You should troubleshoot it. Here you can download my completed Routing RIP Lab project which work fine.

If you have any question, just ask me through comments. I will reply you as soon as possible.

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SuperPutty for GNS3 is one of the best Windows GUI Application that allows the PuTTY SSH Client to be open in multiple tabs. There are many tools for control devices in GNS3, but all of them has it’s own functions and good for basic users. By default GNS3 use the putty for console remote session which open a window separably for each device. See the screenshot of GNS3 using Putty.

SuperPutty for GNS3

Let’s add SuperPuty fro GNS3 and see what makes SuperPutty better than others. The below list is SuperPutty features.

Features:

• Docking user interface allows personalized workspace and managing multiple PuTTY sessions easy
• Export/Import session configuration
• Upload files securely using the scp or sftp protocols
• Layouts allow for customizing session views
• Supports PuTTY session configurations including Private Keys
• Supports SSH, RLogin, Telnet and RAW protocols
• Supports local shell via MinTTY or puttycyg
• Supports KiTTY

1. To add SupperPutty for GNS3, just download the SuperPutty and extract all files, then copy all files to the directory where GNS3 has installed.

2. When you copying files, it ask you to replace files. Simply replace the files in the destination folder and close the window. Then go to GNS3 Preferences from Edit tab to open the Preference page.

3. On the preference page click Console Applications tab. From preconfigured consoles select SuperPutty (Included with GNS3) and click Set. Now the default console application has changed to newly downloaded SuperPutty. Just apply and close all pages and open the console to see the SuperPutty with multiple tabs.

Remember current version of SuperPutty need dot Net framework 3.5 to be installed on your computer. If it’s not installed on your computer, try to install it from  Windows Features section. Open the Windows Features from control panel or simply type “OptionalFeatures” on Windows Run and press enter.

On the Windows Features page, select the .Net Framework 3.5 and click OK. If you don’t have internet or it’s time consuming task for downloading, use DISM command tool to install Windows features offline. How to Install Windows Features Offline Using DISM?

Here is the SuperPutty for GNS3 and enjoy using lovely GNS3 for networking. Feel free to ask your questions and feedback.

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