# Routing Practicals ## Lab 1 - Static Routing Configuration Objective: Configure static routes between two routers to enable communication between three networks. Network Topology: PC1 on network 192.168.1.0/24 connected to Router1 Router1 connected to Router2 through 10.0.0.0/30 link PC2 on network 192.168.2.0/24 connected to Router2 Router1 Configuration: Interface Gi0/0 connected to PC1 network - IP 192.168.1.1/24 Interface Gi0/1 connected to Router2 - IP 10.0.0.1/30 Static route to reach 192.168.2.0/24 network via 10.0.0.2 Router2 Configuration: Interface Gi0/0 connected to Router1 - IP 10.0.0.2/30 Interface Gi0/1 connected to PC2 network - IP 192.168.2.1/24 Static route to reach 192.168.1.0/24 network via 10.0.0.1 Verification: Ping from PC1 to PC2 to verify end-to-end connectivity. Run show ip route on each router to verify routing table entries. ## Lab 2 - RIP Configuration Objective: Configure RIP version 2 on three routers. Step 1: On each router enter configuration mode and access the router rip process. Step 2: Set version 2 to enable classless routing and VLSM support. Step 3: Add each directly connected network to the RIP process. Step 4: Verify routes are being learned by checking the routing table on each router. Step 5: Look for routes marked with R which indicates they were learned through RIP. Step 6: Test connectivity between PCs on different routers. ## Lab 3 - OSPF Configuration Objective: Configure OSPF area 0 on multiple routers. Step 1: On each router configure the OSPF process with a process ID. Step 2: Add networks to OSPF specifying the network address, wildcard mask, and area number 0. Step 3: Verify neighbor relationships using the show ip ospf neighbor command. Step 4: Verify routing table has routes marked with O indicating OSPF learned routes. Step 5: Check the OSPF topology database using show ip ospf database. ## Lab 4 - Default Route and Internet Connectivity Objective: Configure a default route on a branch office router. Step 1: Configure the internet-facing interface with the IP address provided by the ISP. Step 2: Configure a default static route pointing to the ISP router IP address. Step 3: If using dynamic routing redistribute the default route into the routing protocol. Step 4: Verify that all internal networks can reach external internet addresses. Step 5: Check that the routing table shows a default route entry.