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Designing a SOHO network with DHCP


Network requirements for the office

Sales department – 4 computers

Finance department – 3 computers

Networking devices requirement:

·         1 router

·         2 switches (one for each department)

·         1 DHCP server


Documentation

I started by setting up the network topology and used the automatic connecting cable to connect all the devices together.

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Then I configured the server with IPv4 address and a subnet mask. to do this you have to press on the server and then go to desktop. Then I filled in all the parameters as seen below.

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Then I had to configure the DHCP server. To do this I clicked on the server > services > DHCP. Then I turned on the serves and configured the server as seen in this screenshot.

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For the next step I configured the router with the IPv4 address and subnet mask. To assign these IP addresses I went into the router > config > interface, and then turned on the ports. Then I went into FastEthernet and configured it according to IP addressing table below.

S.N. O

Device

Interface

IPv4 Address

Subnet Mask

1.

Router0

FastEthernet0/0

172.168.10.1

255.255.255.0

FastEthernet0/1

192.168.10.1

255.255.255.0

 

A screenshot of a computer Description automatically generatedAfter that step I had to configure all the PC’s and changed the IP configurations. To do this I had to press on a PC > desktop > IP configuration. And then I changed its state from static to DHCP. But then I quickly ran into an issue as DHCP failed and started giving out APIPA addresses.

 

 













Re-starting

There were a few things that went wrong the first time when I tried to complete this like:

·         The router didn’t allow traffic to go between the two subnets

·         The DHCP wasn’t configured on the sales subnet to use the DHCP server that was on the finance subnet.

When I tried to fix these mistakes cisco packet tracer also crashed so I had to restart this project. But on the second try it worked perfectly.

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