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Class 7 - Who Is Instructing What

This active class aims to teach students about routing and routing algorithms. Students will work in groups to simulate and discuss static and dynamic routing. They will build simple networks in Cisco Packet Tracer and configure routing protocols. Completing these activities will help students understand control plane operations and prepare them for assessment tasks. The class is split into three parts - discussing concepts, implementing static routing, and implementing dynamic routing to observe differences compared to static routing.

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Class 7 - Who Is Instructing What

This active class aims to teach students about routing and routing algorithms. Students will work in groups to simulate and discuss static and dynamic routing. They will build simple networks in Cisco Packet Tracer and configure routing protocols. Completing these activities will help students understand control plane operations and prepare them for assessment tasks. The class is split into three parts - discussing concepts, implementing static routing, and implementing dynamic routing to observe differences compared to static routing.

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Active class 7: Who is Instructing What

The learning objective of this class is to learn about routing and routing algorithms.

At the end of this activity, you should be able to:


1. Explain the control plane operation of the Network layer
2. Build a simple network in Cisco Packet Tracer and simulate static routing and dynamic
routing.

This class activity is designed to be worked through active participation and collaborating with
peers under the guidance of the teaching team in the class. The active classes are designed to be
interactive, and they are here for you to extend your learning. However, these classes will only
help you to enhance your learning if you come prepared. To work on the class activities, you
will be expected to have completed the content available in Network Layer-Data Plane and
Network Layer-Control Plane Modules. You need to have a basic understanding of layered
model, TCP/IP, and Data Plane and control plane operations of the Network layer. If you are not
familiar with any of the above, please head to the CloudDeakin unit site and complete it before
starting this active class.
The active classes are related to assessment tasks on OnTrack. After learning about different
concepts from the content provided in the unit site, you will expand on this knowledge by
working on activities designed to put these concepts in practice during the active classes and
submit the completed task to OnTrack in the same week. The teaching team will guide and
support your learning during these activities. This will help you manage your time and tasks
better to avoid tasks piling up towards the deadlines. If you do not complete these activities in
class, you will need to work on them in your own time, with limited support from us available.

The class activities are split into three parts. First, you will conduct a group discussion and a role
play to understand the concept behind the control plane operation of the network layer. Then in
Activity 2 and Activity 3, you put what you have learned into practice.

Activity 1: Routing
This is a group activity. Therefore, you need to form a group of four (4) or five (5) people. At your
table (or in MSTeams chat) discuss the following questions and conduct the role playing with your
group members. Remember to take notes as they will help you prepare your task submissions
and complete other activities.

1. Assume your network has two routers and a separate LAN connects to each router as
shown in the following figure.
LAN1: 10.1.1.0/24
LAN2: 192.168.1.0/24

2. Now we are ready to do a role play. Two group members can act as LANs (one member
for each LAN). They are responsible for all the PCs connected to their corresponding
LAN. Two group members (or one member) are acting as data plane of Router 0 and
Router 1. The remaining member is acting as the control plane of both routers.
3. Now assume PC1 wants to send a message to PC3, you need to work together to
support the request. Each device needs to list your configurations.
4. Discuss
a. How many subnets are there?
b. the responsibilities of the control plan of the routers. Tips: How router 0 knows
about the LAN 2 and router 1
5. You are going to use these discussions for Activity 2 and 3.

Activity 2: Putting what you have learned into practice using Cisco Packet Tracer.

Now it is time to implement your network in Cisco Packet Tracer. Make sure to take
screenshots of the networks you build, analysis, and verifications.
1. Open the packet tracer and implement the following network as a group and make sure
to use Activity 1 discussions to configure each device in the network.
a. You need to make sure PC1, PC3 and PC5 can communicate with each other. Tip:
You need to add static routes to each router.
b. Verify that PC1 can communicate with both PC3 and PC5 using PING command
and simulations.
LAN1: 192.168.3.0/24

Notes: Use 2621XM routers. The routers are connected with each other via serial connections.
To support this, you may need to add the correct interface into the router, i.e., WIC-IT cards.
Make sure the devices are turned off before adding any cards and turn them on again after
adding any modules.

2. Now, add another serial connection between Router 1 and 3 and remove the direct
connection between router 2 and router 3.

LAN1: 192.168.3.0/24

a. Discuss what changes now you need to make to enable the communication
between PC1 and PC5 (Tip: what static routes you need to add).
b. Implement the changes and verify that PC1 and communicate with PC5 using
PING command and simulations.

Activity 3: Alternative for Static Routing


In activity 2, you have noticed that you need to make changes in routers every time there is a
change in the network connection. Discuss the following with the group members.
1. Is there any alternative to stop manually configuring the routing table every time the
connectivity changes?
2. What are the latest routing algorithms you can use?
3. Is there any routing algorithm available in Cisco Packet Traces?
4. Implement the same network as shown in the following figure. However, this time make
sure to use the routing algorithm available in the routers.

LAN1: 192.168.3.0/24

5. Verify the network connections using PING (in each PC).


6. Use the simulation tool to send a packet from PC1 to PC5. Have you seen any
differences compared to the route you have seen in Activity 2? Explain what happened.
7. Now remove the connection between router 1 and 3 and use the simulation tool to
send a packet from PC1 to PC5 without changing any configuration.
8. Explain what you observed.
Above and Beyond Tasks:

Those who are targeting for Credit and above can complete the following task as part of Task
4.1C and 5.2D to demonstrate your deeper understanding on network layer’s control plane
operation.

Identify three different widely used routing protocols. Provide a discussion on these three
routing protocols by comparing them with each other. You can also create a table to list down
key features, advantages, and disadvantages of each routing protocol.

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