STATE UNIVERSITY OF MARANHÃO

COURSE: COMPUTER TECHNICIAN

DISCIPLINE: COMPUTER NETWORKS
POLO: CETECMA-SLZ

Technical report
Packet Tracer

PROFESSOR: GEDSON RIOS

TUTOR: ALEX SANDRO P. MELO
GEORGE VAGNER SILVA DE SOUZA

SÃO LUIS
2014
GEORGE VAGNER SILVA DE SOUZA
 REPORT No. 1
This report was developed for the subject of
Computer networks, taught by the professor
Gedson Rios, for the composition of the evaluative average.

São Luís
2014
SUMMARY
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Summary............................................................................................................................................4

Introduction

Theoretical Foundation......................................................................................................................5

Materials

Objectives ......................................................................................................................................6

Problem...........................................................................................................................................6

Results and Discussions...................................................................................................................7

Conclusions

References......................................................................................................................................13

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 SUMMARY
This report aimed to present the results obtained from the execution of a series of
procedures that make up the structuring of a computer network. A network was created
with nine hosts and the possibility of expansion, two switches and a server that offers services of
DHCP, DNS, HTTP, E-MAIL, FTP, NTP, and TFTP. The network was created using IP addresses of
version 4 (IPV4), provided by the server from the DHCP service, using addresses of
Category A. The entire operation was carried out using Cisco's software, Packet Tracer version
6.0.1

INTRODUCTION

Cisco Packet Tracer is a network simulation tool that allows for prior study of
network behavior, being of great utility in the academic environment and even for designers
professionals. The application provides simulation, visualization, creation, evaluation, and resources of
collaboration, presenting thus, a huge variety of functions to be explored by its
users.

For new users in the area, Packet Tracer provides a simple interface that can be
manipulated through tools represented physically. And so Packet Tracer allows for
simple ways for users to absorb complex technical concepts and create network models,
from the simplest to the most sophisticated.

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 THEORETICAL FOUNDATION

For the development of this practice, it was necessary to have knowledge of various technologies and
concepts of computer networks, some of which can be seen below:
A computer network is formed by a set of processing modules capable of
exchange information and share resources, interconnected by a communication sub-system, that is,
it is when there are at least 2 or more computers and other devices interconnected with each other
in order to share physical and logical resources, these can be of the type: data,
printers, messages (emails), among others.

(...)

A network can be defined by its size,topologyphysical mediumeprotocolused.

PANPersonal Area Network, or personal network. A PAN is a network of computers used

for communication between computer devices (including phones and personal assistants
digital) close to a person.

LANLocal Area Network, or Local Network. It is a network where its size is limited to just a
small physical region.

VAN(Vertical Area Network, or vertical network). A VAN is usually used in networks

predial, considering the need for a vertical distribution of network points.

CAN(Campus Area Network, or campus network). A network that covers a broader area, where
It is possible to contain several buildings within a continuously connected network space. This second
Tanenbaum in his book "Computer Networks" refers to it as a LAN, precisely because this area dictates.
broad, at most large covers 10 blocks or approximately 2,500 square meters.
This is small compared to a city. Therefore, CAN is nothing but Car Area Net. where
the local software works, regulating motors and their electronic components. By the way, Tanenbaum is
quoted above.

MAN(Metropolitan Area Network, or metropolitan network). A MAN is a network where we have for
example, a pharmacy network, in a city, where all access a common database.

WANWide Area Network, or long distance network. A WAN integrates equipment in

various geographical locations (hosts, computers, routers/gateways, etc.), involving
various countries and continents like the Internet.

SAN(Storage Area Network, or Storage Network). A SAN serves as a connection for

remote computer storage devices for the servers so that the
devices appear as locations connected to the operating system.

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 MATERIALS USED
Cisco Packet Tracer software, Version 6.0.1, 32-bit – Cisco Networking Academy;
Computer with processor: Intel Pentium P6200 2.13 GHz, RAM memory: 2.00 GB,
Windows 8.1 64-bit Operating System;

OBJECTIVES

Understand the characteristics of network active elements, as well as their

specificities.

PROBLEM

Laboratory using the Cisco Packet Tracer simulator to create an infrastructure of

network demonstrated the performance of the active elements of this network.
Creation of a scenario involving wired and wireless network technologies.

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 RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS

A network was developed with a total of nine hosts, two switches, and one server. And the network was
developed following a logical order, in order to reduce the possibility of problems and
provide the capacity for network expansion. The working tool can be observed in
image below,

FIGURE 1

Where we have the Packet Tracer interface that can be viewed in logical mode (the connections
network logics, disregarding the geographical location of the elements) or in Physical mode (where it
consider the geographical location of the components, characterizing the type of network.
The simulation method or the real-time method can still be used for analyzing the operation.
of the network.

In the lower left tab are the available elements and in the right side tab are the tools.
of manipulation.
In this way, I first set up the server as follows:

I enabled the HTTP service and changed the default phrase on the home page to 'Hello
Employee, welcome to the corporate website.

I enabled the DHCP service, allowing for the inclusion of up to 50 IP addresses.

automatic. The settings were made as shown in the image below.
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 FIGURE 2

The DNS service was also enabled, where it was named Server0.
server is a second name, [Link], or even. What enables the
access and communication with the server in 3 ways, by IP address, by name
Server0 is the second name, which is more interesting for common users. This
The configuration can be seen in the image below.

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 FIGURE 3

The email service has also been enabled, using both the SMTP protocol and
POP3, and three users were initially added, as can be seen in the
image below.

FIGURE 4

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 The FTP service has also been enabled, which creates users and determines the level of
permission for each one, within the network. And two users were created with different
permission levels, as can be seen in the image below.

FIGURE 5

The server's IP was set to static with the number [Link], with a subnet mask
[Link] and the DNS server pointing to itself. All other components of the network
They were configured to receive IP automatically from the server.
The assembled network was established with the following layout.

FIGURE 6

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 The network was physically divided between the two switches, as can be seen in the image.
above, and it was logically divided through the creation of 3 VLANs, where the network for visitors
is isolated from other access points, increasing the security of the network. The division of the ports of
switch0 was the one who determined the VLANs dividing the ports from 1-4 for a sector
librarian (VLAN 2), ports 5-8 for visitor access (VLAN 3) and the other ports
forming VLAN 1. The communication port between the two switches is port 24, which was defined
like a free port, communicating with all other VLANs and thus allowing that
server offers services to all customers and the IT department can have control over the others
VLANs. The port distribution table by VLAN can be seen in the image below.

FIGURE 7

It is important to emphasize that one of the visitor VLAN ports has been connected to a
wireless router that creates a wi-fi network called Access Point0, allowing access to
devices with Wi-Fi network interface that have the access password, george123, as per
we can see in the image below.

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 FIGURE 8

All points of the network were tested using the commands and flow testing tools.
data, such as the commands 'PING' and 'IP CONFIG', and the network worked perfectly
according to what was expected.

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 CONCLUSION

This experiment enabled the development of an intermediate level network system,

by exemplifying the common corporate network models, expanding knowledge about
the computer communication technologies, developing my methods of using it
Cisco Packet Tracer tool. The device configurations will focus on the proposal.
from a corporate network, also considering possible expansions of it while still being concerned
with the security and reliability of the network. With the development of this experiment, it was
it is still possible to recall and deepen the concepts acquired in the theoretical part of the discipline of
Networks.

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 REFERENCES

VIDEO-CLASS-Packt Tracer- [Link] PROFESSOR

Ramos. Accessed on 03/10/2014.

Learning script - Computer Network - ETEC Network - TEACHER Gedson

Rivers.

Wikipedia page - [Link] - Accessed on

10/03/2014

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