AUT Networking Lab -- Basic Connectivity

In order to do the hardware labs, you need to be able to connect from the
Lab PC to the hardware device in 2 ways: console connection, and
network connection.
A. CONSOLE CONNECTION TO DEVICES
On AUT lab PC
1. Physically connect the blue console cable from the AUT PC to a blue labelled extension port.
Note the number.
2 In the AUT Lab PC, open PuTTy, select Serial, make sure the COMx port number is correct. If
not, open Device Manager and see in Ports, which COMx USBSerial is connected to.

On the device rack.

1. Physically connect a network cable from your extension port to the device console port.
2. Power on the device. For switches, plug in the power cable.

At AUT lab PC in PuTTy terminal

1. Hit Enter key. You should see some messages from the device as it boots up.
2. When the device is ready you should see a prompt such as Switch> or Router>
If it asks for a password and you don't know it, you need to do password recovery for the device.

B. NETWORK CONNECTION FROM PC TO DEVICE

Physical connection
1. At the AUT Lab PC, physically connect the PC network cable (grey color) to the device port.
Remove the PC network cable from the AUT network port and plug it into the blue lablled
extension port. Note the number.
2. At the device rack, connect a network cable from the extension port to your device interface port.

Logical connection.
The AUT Lab PC network interface card (NIC) needs an IP address on the same subnet as your
device network interface. To configure the PC NIC, there are two options.

1. Use Windows Virtual Machine in the Lab PC. As you cannot change the lab PC NIC settings,
start VirtualBox and run the Windows VM. Make sure in Settings, the network is set to "Bridged".
In the Windows VM, open up the Network configuration and set the IP address manually.

2. Without Windows VM. Use the AUT Lab PC NIC to get an IP address from your own DHCP
server in your device:
a. Using your console connection to the device, in config mode, make your own DHCP server.
ip dhcp pool LAB
network 192.168.x.0 255.255.255.0
default-router 192.168.x.1

b. In your LAB PC, open a command terminal, at the C:\> cursor type:
ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew

you should get an IP address on your Lab PC NIC. Test by pinging the device IP address.