AIR UNIVERSITY

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER

ENGINEERING
LAB TITLE: 3B: Switch Administrative Function (Home task)

Student Name: Muhammad Shahzeb Kayani Reg. No: 171209

Objective: This lab exercise is designed for understanding and using basic
configuration commands on a Cisco Switch interacting through Cisco IOS.
LAB ASSESSMENT:

Excellent Good Average Satisfactory Unsatisfactory

Attributes
(5) (4) (3) (2) (1)
Ability to Conduct
Experiment
Ability to assimilate the
results
Effective use of lab
equipment and follows
the lab safety rules

Total Marks: Obtained Marks:

LAB REPORT ASSESSMENT:

Excellent Good Average Satisfactory Unsatisfactory
Attributes
(5) (4) (3) (2) (1)

Data presentation

Experimental results

Conclusion

Total Marks: Obtained Marks:

Date: Signature:
 AIR UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER
ENGINEERING
LAB TITLE: 3B: Switch Administrative Function (Home task)

Student Name: Usman Aziz Reg. No: 171226

Objective: This lab exercise is designed for understanding and using basic
configuration commands on a Cisco Switch interacting through Cisco IOS.
LAB ASSESSMENT:

Excellent Good Average Satisfactory Unsatisfactory

Attributes
(5) (4) (3) (2) (1)
Ability to Conduct
Experiment
Ability to assimilate the
results
Effective use of lab
equipment and follows
the lab safety rules

Total Marks: Obtained Marks:

LAB REPORT ASSESSMENT:

Excellent Good Average Satisfactory Unsatisfactory
Attributes
(5) (4) (3) (2) (1)

Data presentation

Experimental results

Conclusion

Total Marks: Obtained Marks:

Date: Signature:
 QUESTIONS

Step 2-Examine the current switch configuration

How many Ethernet or Fast Ethernet interfaces does the switch have?
24.
What is the range of values shown for the VTY lines?
• Vty 0-4.
• Vty 5-15.
Why does the switch give this response?
we haven’t set any start-up configurations yet.

Step 4-Examine the current running configuration

Are there any passwords set on the lines?

No.
What does the configuration show as the hostname of this switch?

Step 6-Set the command mode passwords

Which password takes precedence, the enable password or enable secret password?
Secret password is encrypted and takes more precedence because it is needed to enable the
switch
for configuration.

Step 8-Examine the startup configuration file

What is displayed?
Configure of the switch.
Are all the changes that were entered recorded in the file?
Yes.
Step 10-Verify connectivity
Were the pings successful?
Yes.
We do it 5 times by pairs of two pcs.
Step 11-Record the MAC addresses of the host
PC0: 0001.6418.B527
PC1: 000C.CFAD.1326
PC2: 0006.2A5C.AADE
PC3: 0030.F2A3.6378
PC4: 0003.E459.7101
Step 12-Determine the MAC addresses that the switch has learned

How many dynamic addresses are there?

5.
How many total MAC addresses are there?
5.
How many addresses have been user defined?
Non.
Do the MAC addresses match the host MAC addresses?
Yes.

Step 13-Determine the show MAC table options

How many options are available for the show mac-address-table command?
1.
How many are there?
5.
Step 15-Verify the results

How many total MAC addresses are there now?

Non.
Why are there so many?
There aren’t any mac addresses shown because we cleared them.
How many dynamic addresses are there?
Non.

Step 16-Determine the clear MAC table options

How many options are there?

1.
In what circumstances would these options be used?
To clear the dynamic mac addresses.

Step 17-Examine the MAC table again

How many dynamic addresses are there?
Non. After pinging the switch.

Why did this change from the last display?

pinged the switch.

• Password: usmanaziz171226

• Secret password: aziz