PROGRAM NO – 2

Aim: Configure and implement a network using Packet Tracer.

a. Creating a First Network
b. Sending Simple Text Messages in Realtime Mode
c. Establishing a Web Server Connection Using the PC’s Web Browser
Program-2(a)
Aim: Creating a First Network
1. Start creating a network by first selecting the End Devices. Add a Generic PC and a Generic Server to
the workspace.
2. Under Connections, select the Copper Straight-through cable (solid black line) and connect the devices
with it. The red lights on the link indicate that the connection is not working. Now, use the Delete tool to
remove the Copper Straight-through cable, and use a Copper Cross-over cable (dashed line) instead. The
lights should turn green at this point. If the mouse pointer is held over either devices, the link status will be
shown as “Up.” The network should look similar to this:

3. Click on the PC. While paying attention to the link lights, turn the power on, off, and on again. Follow
the same steps for the server. The link lights turn red when the device is off. This means that the link is
down or is not working. The link lights turn green when the device is turned back on.
4. Try all three ways to learn about the devices. First, mouse over the devices to see basic configuration
information about them. Second, click on each device with the Select tool to show the device configuration
window, which provides several ways to configure the device. Third, use the Inspect tool to view the tables
the network device will build as it learns about the network around it. In this example, open the ARP table.
Since the devices have not been configured yet, the ARP tables are empty. Always remember to close the
windows after viewing them or they will clutter the workspace.
5. Open the PC configuration window and change the settings using the Config tab. Change the display
name to Client and set the DNS server to 192.168.0.105. Under Interface, click FastEthernet and set the IP
address as 192.168.0.110. Packet Tracer automatically calculates other parameters. Make sure that the Port
Status box is checked. For future reference, note that other Ethernet interface settings, such as bandwidth,
duplex, MAC address, and subnet mask can be modified using this window.
6. Go to the Desktop Tab and click on IP Configuration. Notice that the IP address, subnet mask and DNS
server can be changed here as well.
7. Open the Server configuration window and go to the Config tab. Change the display name to Web
Server. Click FastEthernet and set the IP address as 192.168.0.105. Make sure that the Port Status is also
on. Click DNS and set the domain name as www.firstlab.com. Set the IP address as 192.168.0.105 and
click Add. Finally, check to make sure that the service for DNS is on.

PROGRAM NO – 2 (b)
Aim: Sending Simple Text Messages in Realtime Mode
Objective: This program illustrate the use of Realtime Mode of sending simple text message Procedure:
1. Start by opening the file saved in the last section.
2. Notice that the file opens in Realtime Mode. Use the Add Simple PDU tool to send a simple one-time
ping message, called an echo request, to the server. The server responds with an echo reply because all
devices have properly configured IP address settings.
3. Scroll up and down the User Created Packet Window to see the different capabilities of this ping
message, including an indication that the ping was successful.
4. Toggle the PDU List Window to see a larger display of this message. One or more of these messages can
be saved as a scenario. Scenario 0 is displayed when starting. Label this first scenario with an “i” note.
Different scenarios allow the use of the same topology for experiments with different groupings of user
created packets.
5. Click New to create a new scenario. New scenarios will initially be blank.
6. Add two packets using the Simple PDU tool, a PDU from the PC to the Server and a different PDU from
the Server to the PC. Then add an “i” note describing the scenario, to complete Scenario 1. An example is
shown below
7. Several scenarios can be saved with a single network. Alternate between Scenario 0 and 1.
8. Now, remove Scenario 0 using the Delete button.
9. Scenario 1 is now visible. Go to the last column in the User Created Packet Window and double-click
(delete) to remove a PDU.
10. Delete the whole scenario. Notice that the scenario list went back to the default Scenario 0.

PROGRAM NO – 2(c)
Aim: Establishing a Web Server Connection Using the PC’s Web Browser
Objective: To study the concept of receiving a web page from server, requested by a client.
Conceptual Background: The primary function of a web server is to deliver web pages on the request of
clients using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). This means delivery of HTML documents and any
additional content that may be included by a document, such as images, style sheets and scripts. A user
agent, commonly a web browser or web crawler, initiates communication by making a request for a
specific resource using HTTP and the server responds with the content of that resource or an error message
if unable to do so. The resource is typically a real file on the server's secondary storage, but this is not
necessarily the case and depends on how the web server is implemented. While the primary function is to
serve content, a full implementation of HTTP also includes ways of receiving content from clients. This
feature is used for submitting web forms, including uploading of files.
Procedure:
1. Open the file saved from the previous section.
2. Click on the PC to view the configuration window.
3. Select the Desktop tab, and then click Web Browser. Type in www.firstlab.com as the URL and click the
Go button. The Packet Tracer welcome page, shown below, appears, indicating that the web connection has
been successfully established.
4. Clear the URL, type www and click Go. Since the address entered is not complete, a “Host Name
Unresolved” message appears.
5. Type 192.168.0.105 as the URL entry and click on Go. Notice that the Packet Tracer welcome page
appears again. This is because the Server IP address can also be used to establish a web connection.
6. Close the window and try the same steps in Simulation Mode. In this mode, the user controls time, so the
network can be viewed running at a slower pace, allowing observation of the paths packets take and
inspection of packets in detail.
7. Select the PC again and go to the Web Browser in the Desktop tab. Type www.firstlab.com as the URL
again and click Go. The welcome page should not appear right away.
8. Switch to the main interface of Packet Tracer without closing the PC configuration window. Notice that
a DNS packet is added to the event list.
9. Click Auto Capture/Play or repeatedly click the Capture/Forward button until the HTTP packet appears
on the PC. Go back to the PC configuration window. The Packet Tracer welcome page is now shown.
10. Close the PC configuration window.