Packet tracer exercise

[PieterGhi]

Hello, I need to make a simple packet tracer exercise for school, I should be able to connect PC1 with PC2 but it isn't working.

Can someone explain me what I did wrong?

This is the file: http://www.filedropper.com/pieterghillebaert

[Jon Marshall]

Okay you have RIP configured so we can use that.

I think the issue may be your IP addressing.

Which interface on each router connects to the PC subnet and which interfaces are used to connect the routers to each other ?

Jon

[PieterGhi]

We had to make this: http://puu.sh/hb0Pg/10311190e4.png but I think the teacher made the right part wrong, there are no cables so impossible, so i made an extra cable from Tech to Switch2 (3)

http://puu.sh/hb0Xd/68cea4b567.png

So:

PC0 -> Switch0  = fa0 -> fa0/1

Switch0 -> Gezond = fa0/5 -> fa0/0

Gezond -> Switch1 = fa0/1 -> fa0/1

Switch1 -> Tech =  fa0/4 -> fa0/1

Tech -> Switch2 = fa0/0 -> fa0/1

Switch2 -> PC1 = fa0/5 -> fa0

[Jon Marshall]

The IP addressing is the problem.

You are using  255.255.255.240 subnet mask everywhere but basically you have reused the same subnet for Gezond's connection to Tech and for Tech's connection to it's PC.

So change Gezond's fa0/1 IP address to 176.160.0.61 255.255.255.240.

Then if you do a "sh ip route" you should see a RIP route on each router for the remote subnet.

You may need to wait a while for RIP to actually send the update

Jon

[PieterGhi]

Oh sweet! It works now. 

Thanks so much for you help! :)

So basically the problem was that I was working in the same subnet? And I have 4 subnets now I think, but the task was that we could only use 3, so I'll fix that now.

[Jon Marshall]

You don't have 4 subnets.

You have 3 ie.one for each PC to router connection and one for the router to router connection.

The problem was you had the routers connecting to each other on different subnets so they couldn't talk to each other.

And to add to that one of the routers was using a subnet being used for the PC subnet on the other router.

Changing that IP address on the router simply put it into the same subnet as the other router, it didn't use a new subnet.

Jon

[PieterGhi]

Oh yeah I see, I just skipped subnet 176.160.0.16, I fixed it now so i don't skip one. Thanks!