Lab Title Configure and Verify OSPF in a Single Area

NETW204

DeVry University

Date: 11/29/15

Professor Name:

Introduction

Discuss what you will do in this lab. Provide some background information on the main idea in this lab and discuss the purpose of the lab activity.

In the first lab we learned how to configure a single OSPF area. We also learned how to verify your OSPF configuration using relevant show commands that were provided

Procedure

How did you go about implementing the lab activity. Describe the steps you took to ensure that the final implementation meets the original business goal. For example, did you design a new IP scheme and assign IP addresses to devices based on a given range of IP addresses? Did you assign IP addresses manually, dynamically, or both? Did you name devices based on location? Did you or would you connect switches first or routers first, why? Did you configure the end devices or the infrastructure devices first? What was the plan to verify that the network work? In this lab, we are trying to replace a working network running IGRP, with OSPF single area only. To do this we must Remove IGRP from three of the rotuers, configure OSPF on the same three routers, verify OSPF is working properly, and test and verify connectivity. To Remove IGRP and configure OSPF on the routers we first shutdown the interface we are going to configure. This is so that we set up OSPF systematically, and not all at once. So to Remove IGRP we use the command

“no router igrp <autonomous-system>”

To configure OSPF we use the command

“router ospf <process-id>” but OSPF is not enabled until we add a network using this command

“network <ip-address> <mask> area <area-id>”

After we have tested that OSPF is up and running properly, we have to set a router to be the DR, and another router to be the BDR. WE can do this by shutting down the interfaces and using the command “ip ospf priority <number>”

To verify we use the commands

“show ip ospf neighbor”

“show ip ospf interface <interface>”

To Display the OSPF adjacency events we can use the command

“debug ip ospf adjacency”

As with all debug commands, turning them off is very important to save valuable CPU resources. We can also use the command

“show ip ospf database”

Note that the procedure must take into consideration not only the steps you took to implement the lab solution but also the order in which you carried out those steps and a rationale for doing so.

Results

Discuss your findings here. You devise some steps to complete the lab. Did the lab work? Did you make adjustments to your original procedure? How can you tell that the lab activity implemented meets the business needs? Yes the lab worked perfectly. I was able to execute the commands that were given to me.

Application and Analysis

Below are some sample questions that will guide you as you complete this lab section.

From the information given, can you develop a set of instructions to implement the solution in a small-to medium-sized network? yes

What, if anything, would you change before applying the lab activity in a production (live) network?I would just keep going over the commands needed to perform the task and make sure everything is working the correct way its suppose to before applying anything.

What vertical market (Financial, Manufacturing, Education, Healthcare, Telecommunications, etc.) does this lab activity align with the most? Why? This would align with any career that is in the networking field because anything that has to do with setting up network inferstructure would be applied.

How was this lab activity similar to other labs that you have done in the past? I have not done any other lab that relates to this in the past.

Can you distinguish between concepts and application? yes because concepts are the diagram of the task being performed and application is doing the tasks on your own.

Questions

1. What new concepts or theories have you learned about after completing this lab activity? What I have learned in This lab was That the OSPF areas are hard To developed and find in this process but after doing a little research and reading the course book and finding steps to follow during the lab.

2. In this class, we use the three steps approach to complete the lab activity. The steps include plan, implement, and verify. Discuss and explain how you execute each step in this lab activity. I implement thise steps by doing them one by one to make sure that everything is correct and setup right.

3. What challenges, if any, have you encountered in this lab? How have you addressed those challenges? If you have not experienced any challenge, tell us what new troubleshooting commands you have learned this week and how that command has helped you complete the lab activity. There was no challenge in this weeks lab on getting it up and running.

4. How would you apply what you have learned this week in future courses or in the IS/IT field? I can apply what I learned from this lab when it comes to configuring and verifying a OSPF in a single area if ever need be.

Conclusion and Recommendation

In the conclusion, you need to address what you intended to do and correlate that with what you actually did. Did the two differ in any way? Please explain any difference between expectation and observation. when performing this lab all i did was follow the steps given to me to perform the tasks and everything came together and worked out correctly as they were suppose to.

What would you suggest that we do differently to improve the lab experience? If you do not have any suggestions for this week, then what do you wish we add or remove from this week’s lab to enhance your overall learning experience? Dont have any suggestions because Im learning all of this for the firs time.

How did the lab activity align with today’s technology? This lab activity aligns with todays technology because anything that has to do with setting up differnet configuration of a network, which is performed everyday in the tech world.

Lessons Learned

This is the take-away message. What have you learned from this lab activity? Assume this question comes from your grandma, what would you tell her? She does not need to have a technical background to understand what you did. In brief, make it plain and simple?I would explain to her that OSPF is like going on to Google maps and looking up how to get to her favorite craft store in a differnt town that has what she needs in stock. The routes given have different times next to them and usually the quickest way or route is highlighted in green. And when it comes to troubleshooting, its like when you need to figure out things that went wrong and differnt ways you can perform the task at hand to come to a working way.

References

Please provide any external references used to complete this lab assignment.

http://www.ciscopress.com/articles/article.asp?p=26919&seqNum=3

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