I'm having issues with my home lab setup. I have 3 1921 Cisco routers and 3 switches, 2 Catalyst 2960s and 1 Catalyst 3560. I'll show you the setup of my topology and then discuss the issues I'm running into with it:
Home Network Topology
Default IPv4: 10.10.10.1/24 Default IPv6: 2001:db8:6783/48
SW1 - VLAN: 10.10.10.4/24
Interface | Connected Port | Description |
Fa/23 | Fa/04 SW2 | ## to SW2 ## |
Fa/24 | Fa/01 SW3 | ## to SW3 ## |
SW2 - VLAN: 10.10.20.4/24
Interface | Connected Port | Description |
Fa/23 | Fa/04 SW1 | ## to SW1 ## |
Fa/24 | Fa/02 SW3 | ## to SW3 ## |
SW3 - VLAN: 10.10.30.1/24
Interface | Connected Port | Description |
Fa/23 | Fa/05 SW1 | ## to SW1 ## |
Fa/24 | Fa/05 SW2 | ## to SW2 ## |
R1
Interface | Connected Port | IPv4 Network | IPv6 Network |
G0/0 | Fa/01 SW1 | 10.10.10.1/24 | 2001:0db8:6783:0010::1/64 |
G0/1 | Fa/01 SW2 | 10.10.20.1/24 | |
(can’t ping SW3)
R2
Interface | Connected Port | IPv4 Network | IPv6 Network |
G0/0 | Port 2 SW1 | 10.10.10.2/24 | |
G0/1 | Port 2 SW2 | 10.10.20.2/24 | |
(can’t ping SW3)
R3
Interface | Connected Port | IPv4 Network | IPv6 Network |
G0/0 | Port 3 SW1 | 10.10.10.3/24 | |
G0/1 | Port 3 SW2 | 10.10.20.3/24 | |
(can’t ping SW3)
I recreated my home lab in Packet Tracer, which I left a screenshot in this for someone to see, but the most annoying issue is not being able to ping SW3 from any of the routers. I'm thinking that since SW1 and SW2 are layer 2 switches and SW3 is a layer 3 switch, trying to send a ping (a network layer) from the routers won't work (since switches work on the data-link layer). So if I switched SW3 and SW1 do you think that would fix the issue? Other than that, I'm still learning about IPv6 and am trying to figure out the best way to go about allocating those out as well. All in all, is there a better way I can go about my home network? Is my logic sound? Any recommendations would be incredibly helpful. Thank you!
