Assessment item 1

Task

This assessment consists of two parts. Part A is to assess your ability to design a subnet plan for a
small network and test your understanding of various protocols. Part B assesses the hands on skills to
configure a network topology and test the connectivity using Packet Tracer simulator.

Rationale
The aim of this assignment is to evaluate your capabilities to:
- design a subnet plan for a small company network including several routers and subnets;
- discuss routing problems that can occur in complex networks;
- Correctly identify and discuss the functionality and limitations of different devices used in
computer networks;
- evaluate network performance;
- perform basic router configuration; and
- configure simple routing

Marking criteria

Marks will be generally awarded based on the following criteria:

- full marks will be awarded for high accuracy, with an advanced level of depth, original thought and
understanding with use of diagrams and good presentation;
- Satisfactory answers will score up to 75% of the marks allocated to a question;
- Deductions will be made for major omissions, errors and over use of quotes;
- correct in-text referencing and reference list according to the APA standard. Poor referencing will
result in deductions to individual question and total assignment marks;
- list the steps to show your working;
- Correct IP addresses, network addresses and subnet masks used in configuring networks;
- correct use of configuration commands and associated parameters; and
- Appropriate testing and results.

Presentation

A word file (with your answer and explanation) and the Packer Tracer (.pkt) file are
required in the final submission.

Requirements

There are THREE questions in this assignment. Each includes several tasks. The total marks are 40.

Instructions
- For the subnetting question the working of subnetting and the different steps performed to arrive at
the answer have to be shown. Marks will be deducted if subnetting process is not shown;
- The length of the short answer questions should be between 200 and 500 words each;
- All sources of information need to be fully referenced as per the APA referencing style. You have to
reference the textbook plus any additional material you have used in your answers. See the CSU guide
to APA at http://www.csu.edu.au/division/studserv/learning/referencing/
Question 1: (10 marks)
The following is a dump of a TCP header in hexadecimal format:
00CD0050 00000EF1 00000D5D 502200D1 01BF0010
Please answer the following two parts of questions:

Part I (1 mark each)

1.1 What is the source port number?
1.2 What is the destination port number?
1.3 What is the sequence number?
1.4 What is the acknowledgment number?
1.5 What is the length of the header?
1.6 Which control bits are set and what do they represent?
1.7 What is the window size?

Part II (3 marks)
1.8 What does the last four digits ‘0010' of the above dump represent? What action will the destination
node take when it receives this packet?

Question 2: (10 marks)

Based on the output from the “show cdp neighbours” command please draw the topology:
2.1 Show all the connections between the devices (6 marks)
2.2 Label the interfaces (4 marks)

Question 3: (80 marks)

Study carefully the following network diagram for a fictional organisation. Choose TWO (2) IP
addresses to configure this network.

• The first IP address is used for the WAN links.

• The second IP is used for the LANs.

You must create a set of subnets that supports variable amount of hosts on each subnet. The topology
is shown here below:
 Design the
network addressing scheme using VLSM in the MOST efficient way to subnet the LAN and the WAN
links that will supply the minimum number of hosts per subnet and allow enough extra subnets and
hosts for 30% growth in all areas. Do not use VLSM Subnet Calculators.

There is one MS Word file and “3” Three Packet Tracer files to be created and submitted. SAVE THE
MS WORD and PACKET TRACER FILES as “your Full Name_RIPv2.pkt” - “your Full Name
_EIGRP20.pkt” - “your Full Name _EIGRP150.pkt” and “your Full Name.doc” or docx (eg
Superman_RIPv2.pkt and Superman.doc)

Assessment is covered by 5 stages; each stage has various tasks to complete.

Stage 1

3.1 Define subnet masks and extended prefix length for the LANs and WANs for this organisation –
Show your work. (4 marks).
3.2 Write the usable IP range for each Subnet (LANs and WANs) – Show your work. (4 marks).
3.3 Choose an IP address for PC1 (in LAN2), PC2 (in LAN 6) and a default gateway. (4 marks)
The LOWEST IP addresses of each subnet should be given to the two PCs.
The HIGHEST IP addresses of each subnet are given as the default gateway.

3.4 Write explicitly the IP address of the host number 68 in LAN5 explicitly in binary and decimal
notation (2 marks).
3.5 What is the broadcast address for LAN4? (2 marks).

Stage 2

Setup and configure the network you designed above using the Packet Tracer router simulator.

3.6 Configure the four routers and name them as Router 1, Router 2, Router 3 and Router 4. (2 marks).

3.7 Set the secret password as ‘class’ on all routers. (2 marks).

3.8 Configure the interfaces/PCs. (2 marks).
3.9 Configure TELNET on the Router 3 with a password of ‘xyz123’ (3 marks).
3.10 Configure a suitable MOTD. (2 marks).
Stage 3

3.11 Configure the network you designed above using RIP v2 (5 marks).
3.12 Verify the basic configuration and the router operations; based on your observation please give an
explanation of the Ping process from PC1 (in LAN2) to PC2 (in LAN 6) and the routing table lookup
progress on Router 1 (8 marks).

Stage 4

3.13 Set up EIGRP (AS number = 20) on all routers. The clock-rate on the routers should be set to the
values shown in the figure above (10 marks).
Copy and paste the routing table for Route 3 in your MS Word document.
3.14 What is the metric to the PC2 on the Router 3? (5 marks)
3.15 Justify this metric by showing how the router calculated it! (5 marks)

Stage 5

3.16 On all the routers change the EIGRP Administrative Distance to 150. (10 marks)
3.17 Backup all router configurations to a TFTP server on LAN5, show the command(s)! (4 marks)
3.18 After rebooting all routers, copy and paste the router table for Router 3 below, and comment on
any differences between this router table and the one above (3.12) and explain why? (6 marks)