Ultimate CCNA Challenge Lab

After reading on different CCNA concepts, I thought I wanted to assess myself by building a network where almost all the concepts I learned will come and work altogether, a simulation lab which will test my familiarity with different Cisco CLI commands. I began by thinking, What do I want my network to do? What technologies I want to use to enable those functions? Then I started building the topology and I came up with this:

These are the CCNA concepts used in this lab:

• VLANS and VTP
• Inter-VLAN
• WAN
• IP Routing
• NAT/PAT
• ACL

I did this lab in Packet Tracer and lucky I was able to finish it. My approach was focus on one portion and list out what I need to accomplish on that portion of the network, like, for the Local Area Network, hosts on the same subnets should be able to communicate with each other and so on. 

I thought others might want to try this so I made a documentation which comes along with a Packet Tracer file with the topology already set up, but with clear configurations (except for some devices). I also included my finished Packet Tracer file which can be used for testing the final output.

At the end of this activity you should accomplish the following functions in the network:

• Two VTP domains with VLANS
• Hosts from different VLANS can communicate
• Hosts from different networks can communicate over the WAN
• Hosts can access the internal server (except those that are blocked by ACL)
• Hosts can access the Internet (except those that are blocked by ACL)
• Internal web server can be accessed from the Internet

Piece of cake right? So go ahead and hit the download link. 

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Feel free to ask questions and please give some feedback to this lab after you have tried it. Good luck and happy labbing!!

UPDATE: 12/04/11 

I just have a correction in Step #2 - LAN with Inter-VLAN

c) S1, S2, S3 can be accessed through its management interface by Host A, B, C, D. (on the PC’s command prompt, successful telnet to each switch: password “cisco”). Then enable the switches to be accessed remotely (test this after accomplishing Step #4)

The command to enable the switches to be accessed remotely must be applied so that Host A, B, C, D can telnet to the switches in the first place. Because the management interface is in VLAN 30 and Host A, B, C, D are on different VLANs.

But of course accomplishing Step #4 will allow other hosts from remote networks (over the WAN) to telnet to this switches.


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