Networking Lab
Lab 1: Cable Construction in a LAN - The objective of this lab is to
understand the color coding standard
of UTP cable, test a coaxial cable,
create straight and crossover cable and
test/verify its connectivity and connect
computers in Local Area Network.
Lab 2: Network devices in packet tracer - The objective of this lab is to
Understand Packet tracer and Getting
to know the network devices such as
hub, switches, router .
Lab 3: hubs and switches - A switch is a multi-input, multi-output
device which transfers packets from an
input to one or more outputs. A hub
joins multiple computers (or other
network devices) together to form a
single network segment. The objective
of this lab is to see the difference of
these two devices in packet tracer, in
Wireshark with a physical
implementation, and also in Riverbed
Modeler Academic Edition.
Lab 4: Network Tap - A network TAP is a device that is
directly used to connect to the cabling
infrastructure. Instead of two switches
or routers connecting directly to each
other, the network TAP is put between
the two devices and all data flows
through the TAP. This lab shows three
different ways to monitor all
inbound/outbound traffic on a network
as follows:
- Building a network tap with a much
reduced budget.
- A tap, network tap or passive sniffer is
a network element that allows us to
duplicate network traffic from one
connection to another port and thus be
able to monitor all transmitted packets.
- Using a switch w/a port
mirroring/spanning capability and
