Ch. 13 lab, building a routed, switched and wireless network.

We didn't do this exact lab in class but we did make a wireless network a couple times and we also made a routed and switched network so if I combine the two ideas.  I would have a wired in router getting internet from the outside which I would find a router that could work as a firewall as well.  I would then connect that to a switch that would connect to a wireless router that would provide internet to the network.

This is a picture of a router and switch!

This is the wireless router's configuration screen to fix your own internal IP on.

The above picture is the router's configuration screen.  Showing what interface is currently being worked on.

Ch. 12 Secure a wireless access point lab

We didn't do this in class or I might not have been there but I imagine it would go something like going into the wireless router and setting it to not broadcast its SSID, do mac filtering and manually add the devices you approve.  Also don't forget to set to wpa2 security protocol and for a firewall I recommend zone alarm.  Apologies if I miss the lab but we did something similar to this in preperation for the final which will come in handy with my home network.

Tour of the campus network

This tour was great.  We toured the campus and we started at the wiring closet just outside the classroom.  The wiring closet nearest us was the neatest of the lot but as we went on and saw the different switches and terminals it was like going down the rabbit hole in alice in wonderland.  It was a wonderous journey but it made me fear inside for ken's sanity.  This is a set of pictures of the different wiring closets.  I must say I am envious of ken's skill to divine the madness which is that server room.

The above is one of the cleaner setups of wiring closet.

Another view of the orderlyness of the wiring closet in wayne west.

The above is a hot mess and I hope for all that is holy that someone has a network diagram for it.

Ken playing off the server room like he planned it the entire time.

Virtual pc lab

I forgot to take a screenshot of this lab when we did it but I did not use the virtual pc7 like brad said to.  I used windows 7's built in virtual pc software.  It comes in an update I should say but it is built into windows 7 itself.  All I had to do was have the iso and use the software to install iso file.  It went like a breeze and I could use networking with it when I switched it on in options. 

Wireless Network Lab

This is the wireless lab aaron and I did.  We got out our wireless router and connected the cord to the internet first which gave us the 10.40 ip's  We were given ip and masks to make our subnets from.

All we really did in this lab was change the ip's and made sure they were functioning.  I was able to connect wirelessly to the router which was nice after seeing how to set it up.  The following screens are of the router configuration page initially found at 192.168.0.1.  I wish I had screens of the dhcp part where we set an ip range.



Wireless Lan Project

Wireless Access point for home use-

     The wireless access point I chose for home use is also a bridge!  I am full of surprises am I not?  The D-Link DAP-1522 is wireless b/g/n compatible and it is quite fast.  It has 4 ports which is fine for a home network.  You could have the device in your home office and picking up the wireless you pick up from another room for your desktop. 
      This is also a dual band device which means you can use your higher band for high intensity activities like gaming.  The low band could be configured for your other wireless devices so you can just pass routing information between them and use the higher band for gaming.  I would recommend this for anyone looking to extend the range of their wireless network.  It is cheap at $69.99 on newegg.com.



Wireless Access Point for business-

     The access point I chose for business is the Hewlett-Packard JD015A#ABA A7760 Wireless Access Point.  It has a wide variety of security settings and is dual band.  It has power over ethernet capability which is neat because it can conduct electricity and charge devices that are compatible!  A great buy for any business. 
     Another good reason to buy this is how compact it is.  It will not be hard to fit this in most any business even if you are the most sweat shoppiest of sweat shops.  You can farm monster amounts of gold when your computers are connected to this hot little number of a wireless access point.  It has speeds up to 108 Mbps and supports 802.11b/g.


Another Wireless Access point-

     For the last access point this is what I would choose this one, the NETGEAR WNDAP350-100NAS ProSafe Dual Band Wireless-N Access Point.  It is a decent access point with a lifetime warranty.  It has internal antenna's and dual band functionality as well. You can dual band 802.11 n with one band and another protocol with the other or you can have 2 802.11 n's  which I don't understand now how that would be useful but I will ask you later brad.
     Another neat feature is the kensington locked slot for anti theft purposes.  It is plenum rated so it can go above the ceiling and still function.  I always say you need more plenums!  Most businesses set up their wireless like this with a central router in their office.  Like burger king and mcdonalds have theirs set up like this.

Routed WAN network

For this lab we wanted to simulate a WAN network.  We divided up into 5 groups of people and we all got routers.  We used serial port connections between each router and we were given a ip and the subnet and we were told to make a routable ip from that and then see if we could ping across the network.  We went along and went into the router's config with telnet and we set up the interfaces and the clockspeed to see how its done.  The commands we used were enable then config.  Then we used the int s0/0 and int s1 commands to check the interfaces and change the ip's of the serial ports.  We found out later when we tried to route across the network we used an incorrect IP setup.  We were trying to use a private ip to work the subnets off of.

This is what it looks like when you console into the router.  As shown by brad.  Weeeeeee!

We used putty to console in the router.