How to Configure a Switch and Router
Hot to Configure a Switch and Router
Michael Anthony Horton
University of Phoenix
June 16th, 2013
Instructor: John Tinney
How to Configure a Switch and Router Switches and routers are a vital part of computer networking but it takes much more than just plugging them in. In order to get them to properly operate, they must be properly installed as well as properly configured. Having said the above, after completing week 6 toolwire labs which was starting a switch and starting a router and after conducting an enormous amount of research on Cisco Systems, Cisco Systems being a huge corporation that produces computer networking products and services, I learned an enormous amount of information pertaining to switches and routers and how to configure them. For example one of the things I learned which I was previously unaware of was that “the command-line interface (CLI) is used by network administrators to set up their Cisco Switches and that it is necessary for the Switch’s console port to be plugged into a computer terminal or modem with an RJ-45 rollover cable and the appropriate adapter in order to access the command line interface.” Now to get to the assignment at hand as to how to configure a switch and router, I would first like to say that the two are quite similar in that not only “in the way they are configured but how they function as well. As matter of fact, there will actually be no issues with the network and a switch installed in the network that already has a router.” If I was configuring switches for a VLAN system, I would say that I would do it quite similar or perhaps the same as configuring routers for the LAN system. As for configuring a switch in general, a visual switch manager or management console, management console being a component of windows 2000 and its successors that provides system administrators and advanced users an interface for configuring and monitoring the system, is
Michael Anthony Horton
University of Phoenix
June 16th, 2013
Instructor: John Tinney
How to Configure a Switch and Router Switches and routers are a vital part of computer networking but it takes much more than just plugging them in. In order to get them to properly operate, they must be properly installed as well as properly configured. Having said the above, after completing week 6 toolwire labs which was starting a switch and starting a router and after conducting an enormous amount of research on Cisco Systems, Cisco Systems being a huge corporation that produces computer networking products and services, I learned an enormous amount of information pertaining to switches and routers and how to configure them. For example one of the things I learned which I was previously unaware of was that “the command-line interface (CLI) is used by network administrators to set up their Cisco Switches and that it is necessary for the Switch’s console port to be plugged into a computer terminal or modem with an RJ-45 rollover cable and the appropriate adapter in order to access the command line interface.” Now to get to the assignment at hand as to how to configure a switch and router, I would first like to say that the two are quite similar in that not only “in the way they are configured but how they function as well. As matter of fact, there will actually be no issues with the network and a switch installed in the network that already has a router.” If I was configuring switches for a VLAN system, I would say that I would do it quite similar or perhaps the same as configuring routers for the LAN system. As for configuring a switch in general, a visual switch manager or management console, management console being a component of windows 2000 and its successors that provides system administrators and advanced users an interface for configuring and monitoring the system, is
References: IT/242 - INTRO TO WAN TECHNOLOGIES O’Reilly Online Catalog: Managing IP Networks with Cisco Routers By By Scott M. Ballew 1st Edition October 1997 ComputingNetworkingNotes.com Cisco Configuring IP Multicast Routing Personal Input