Routed Network

This lab went fast and furious as you can tell by Brad's "fingers of fury" configuring the routers to connect to the switches to create the subnets. we all then had to connect and check the connections by pinging other classmates. Using special Cisco cables we were able to connect the three routers and on the final router connect to the switch with an rj45 crossover cable. The subnets were as follows:

1) 140.20.0.0

2) 140.20.32.0

3) 140.20.64.0

4) 140.20.96.0

Had a few problems at first but with some tweaking to some encapsulation by the Cisco Guru, all went pingingly well.

Virtual Machine Lab

I set up PC VM 2007 on my laptop. Downloaded Damn Small Linux 4.4.10 in ISO format. Then went throught the process of creating a virtual machine. I did a VM a few years ago with DSL and it was really basic. It's improved a lot since. VM 2007 first created a configuration file, .vmc, then created virtual hard drive .vhd file. When I opened the vhd it told it to capture the DSL ISO file and hit enter. DSL started the boot process. I prefer to use ISO’s but you can run VM with an installation disk. Fortunately I’m running an old PIII 1GHZ laptop, so the newer version of DSL found (by found I mean had all the drivers) all the hardware just fine. It also found the old DLink wireless PCMCIA card I’m using for the internet. Surfed a bit on it. Sweet stuff.
For whatever reason my prnt scrn wouldn’t do so, so I had to use another program from a USB suite called ASuite which has a lot of utilities you can use from your usb drive. Cool too. I was able to use the DSL OS just as if it were installed on the hard drive. DSL also has a feature to install it to a USB or hard drive. If you decide to do more virtual machines, I do recommend as much ram and processing power as possible, as the VM will use part of what you have, although in the settings for the VM you can adjust the memory it uses.