This one is going to be a series of labs to help friends with their CCNA studies, I have always been asked about something like this and I think now is the time to help and share.
In order to help you pass the ICND 1 there are few things that you need to visualize. I want to start from the one I think its more important:
Know the Objectives
Here is a quick list of what you will be asked in the real exam: http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/exams/list/icnd1b.html#~Topics
From Objective 2.0 Configure and verify initial switch configuration
Equipment: 2 Cisco 3750 + 1 Cisco 1841
Topology:
LAB:
so in this objective they want us to be able to configure and verify the following when working with switches
hostname
mgmt ip address
ip default-gateway
local user and password
enable secret password
console and VTY logins
exec-timeout
service password encryption
copy run start
Scenario:
Customer wants you to configure 2 new switches, the customer purchased 2 switches and a router in order to create a small business network.
Configure the following:
Configure the Switches:
– Give the 2 new switches a name
– Give the 2 new switches a Management IP address (VLAN 10)
– Give the switches a default Gateway 10.200.10.1
– Configure console with a username and a password
– Configure Telnet/SSH access to the switch
– Configure Enable Secret
– Configure Console/Telnet/SSH timeout of 10 minutes
– Encrypt all passwords on the switches
– Save your configuration
No much network Connectivity on this one until we configure a trunk and a router:
- Create VLANS on switch 1 (10 – 20 – 30)
- Configure Trunk Interfaces for the switches on Fast Ethernet 1/0/24
- Configure Switch-1 as the VTP server
- Configure Switch-2 as the VTP Client
- Configure a VTP Domain
- Configure a VTP Password
Configure a Router
- Configure IP address of the router on interface Fast Ethernet 0/0
- Connect Network cable to any VLAN 10 port on the switch
Test and Verify
- Connect a computer to the management VLAN 10
- Assign Static IP addresses to all PCs
- There will not be interval Routing because we are using Layer 2 Switches and we have not configured interfaces for the VLANs on the Router
- Verify VTP connectivity
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** I do recommend creating this configuration at least 3 times, so that you are confident configuring it.
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Show commands:
show vtp status: Display the information about VTP
show plan brief: Display the VLANS on the VLASN Database and the assigned ports
show ip interface brief: Display all interfaces on a list format (UP/Down)
show interface status (Shows interfaces based on configuration (Trunk or Access), also helpful to see descriptions and connection status
About the Author:
Andres Sarmiento, CCIE # 53520 (Collaboration)
With more than 13 years of experience, Andres is specialized in the Unified Communications and Collaboration technologies. Consulted for several companies in South Florida, also Financial Institutions on behalf of Cisco Systems. Andres has been involved in high-profile implementations including Cisco technologies; such as Data Center, UC & Collaboration, Contact Center Express, Routing & Switching, Security and Hosted IPT Service provider infrastructures.