1. Seneca DCN330 – Fall 2017
Report for Lab 6
Name: Student ID: Date:
NOTE: Record and highlight your results in this report. Submit your Packet Tracer source file
separately with your submission (i.e., upload your PKA file to the BlackBoard separately with
this lab report). Failed to do so will result in significant mark deductions.
Task 1
(Mark
20%)
Understand the RIP routing protocol
1. In one sentence, explain what a routing protocol is?
2. Is RIP routing protocol a distance-vector routing protocol or a link-state routing protocol?
3. There are two versions of RIP protocol, RIPv1 and RIPv2, and there are several differences
between the two (based on the slide deck of this week). What are the THREE major
differences in your opinion?
4. Why RIPv1 cannot support discontinuous network?
Task 2 Answer the following questions based on your Packet Tracer activity. (Note: be sure to
accomplish it with confidence. A number of students may randomly be selected to show how to
complete the activities in front of your instructor.)
2.1
( Mark
20%)
Following the Packet Tracer Activity instructions. Once you finish Step2, insert three screenshots
below to display the IP routing tables below on your Uptown, Downtown, and Core routers,
respectively.
Screenshot#1: Routing Table on Uptown Router:
Screenshot#2: Routing Table on Downtown Router:
Screenshot#3: Routing Table on Core Router:
2. Seneca DCN330 – Fall 2017
2.2
(Mark
20%)
What is the maximum hop count that the RIP routing protocol can support?
Why would an expanding company want to make the switch from static routes to routing protocols?
2.3
(Mark
40%)
Compete (or partially complete) the Packet Tracer Activity and submit your source file through
Blackboard. At the same time, insert the screenshot after you click the “Check Results” button below.
