Physical Topology to Logical Topology
Knowing how to convert a physical topology into a logical topology that suits your demand is the first thing you have to do for your network to get up and run. In practical most of the networks are connected like this:
As you can see, all the routers are connected to two switches Sw1 & Sw2. If the network is large enough, Sw1 & Sw2 should belong to Core layer which requires high speed switching because they have to do hardest work in the network. They should be powerful to mitigate congestion if occurs. Redundancy is also very important in this layer by providing multiple paths so that when a link goes down packets can still travel to the destination. Sw3 & Sw4 requires less power to proceed traffic and they should belong to Distribution layer. The last layer, which is not presented here is the Access Layer where switches are connected directly to the end users/terminals. In fact Sw3 and Sw4 can be used in Access Layer if the network is not large.
So how can we convert a physical topology to a logical topology as shown below?
The answer is we will need to use VLAN, trunking, subinterfaces to achieve this. Let’s start with the first section of R1-R2-R6.
Note: You can download the Initial Config & Final Config of this lab here (open with Packet Tracer v5.3.3 or above): http://www.rstut.com/download/Physical_Topology_to_Logical_Topology.zip. We tested and all the configuration in this lab worked very well.
Section R1-R2-R6
We see all three routers R1, R2 & R6 use fa0/0 interfaces to connect to each other in this section and they all are connected to Sw1 in the physical topology so we only need to assign VLAN 126 to three corresponding ports on Sw1.
| SW1: interface range fa0/1 – 2, fa0/6 switchport access vlan 126 |
After typing above commands we will see a message like this:
| % Access VLAN does not exist. Creating vlan 126 |
That means SW1 does not have Vlan 126 previously so it created one automatically.
Of course we will assign IP addresses on these routers and “no shut” them so that we can ping among them:
| R1: interface fa0/0 ip address 10.10.126.1 255.255.255.0 no shutdown |
R2: interface fa0/0 ip address 10.10.126.2 255.255.255.0 no shutdown |
R6: interface fa0/0 ip address 10.10.126.6 255.255.255.0 no shutdown |
Now we can ping between them successfully:
| R1#ping 10.10.126.2
Type escape sequence to abort. Sending 5, 100-byte ICMP Echos to 10.10.126.2, timeout is 2 seconds: .!!!! Success rate is 80 percent (4/5), round-trip min/avg/max = 0/0/1 ms |
The first ping fails because whenever a router first sends a packet to a next-hop that has no entry in the ARP table, it has to send out an ARP Request first and wait for a reply. That waiting time causes the first packet to be dropped.
Section R2-R3
From the physical topology we learn that fa0/1 of R2 is connecting to Sw2 while fa0/0 of R3 is connecting to Sw1. Therefore if we want to connect these two interfaces we have to configure a trunking link between Sw1 & Sw2. In this part we only set fa0/23 of Sw1 & Sw2 as trunk links while turning off other switch-to-switch ports to make the explanation simple.
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Sw1 & Sw2: interface fa0/23 |
Fa0/1 of R2 is connecting to SW2 so we configure Vlan 23 on this switch:
| Sw2: interface fa0/2 switchport access vlan 23 no shutdown |
Configure IP address on fa0/1 of R2:
| R2: interface fa0/1 ip address 10.10.23.2 255.255.255.0 no shutdown |
We see on R3, interface fa0/0 is connected to 2 different networks (one is R2-R3, the other is R3-R4-R5) so we have to use sub-interface on R3.
| R3: interface fa0/0 no shut interface fa0/0.23 encapsulation dot1q 23 ip address 10.10.23.3 255.255.255.0 |
on Sw1 we have to declare the port connected to R3 as trunk as we are using subinterface on R3.
| Sw1: interface fa0/3 switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q switchport mode trunk |
Notice that SW1 still does not have Vlan 23 because we set trunking on fa0/3 so we have to manually createVlan 23 on SW1:
| Sw1(config)#vlan 23 |
Note: If we don’t create Vlan 23 on Sw1, it will drop frames belong to Vlan 23 sent to it.
In the next part we will continue learning how to configure Section R3-R4-R5 & Section R6-R7-R8
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One guy reported there is a new lab4 H4
if anybody going for an attempt and gets a new lab pls give feedback.
my exam is in this week.
is this confirmed new lab arrived ?
Nope … it is not yet confirmed ,
I failed yesterday.
i was not aware of the new lab and i got the new lab.
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Did you received new lab with all new topology and all new questions ?
hey Angelo, can u pls share the details of new lab which u got in exam.
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OMG !! this really seems to be a bad news
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M i going to get the new lab or any chances of getting old labs
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@lawrence
Do u have any proof of this confirmation of new lab4
Hey Lawrence ,
thanks for the info , my exam is in next week beginning,
I think If pass-ccie-exam-.com has confirmed there is new lab than there should be no doubt of it as pass-ccie-exam-.com is a very old vendor in cert selling
Hi friend.. i have also confirmed with both pass-ccie-exam-.com and ccielabcenter both have given confirmation of new lab…… Lab4
when did you take the exam?
@Angelo
sorry ! I can understand you. It is no easy.
Please can you share your dumps ?
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Or can somebody send me the dumps ? I just want to see how it is
Hey friends.
Lab4 Lab topology is out :
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you said you got new lab.
pls check the link share by alex ,
was this the same topology which u got in exam of new lab ?
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Link to download CCIE RS written vaild in August 2019.
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Hi all, if Lab 4 does not exist then what is the lab being provided to people taking it?
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No Lab 4 provided to people, they claim to have received it just to confuse us and come with a fake lab.
Hallo guys,
i need help , is there H4 Lab or not
failed today in brussel, i got new lab i didn’t see it before( not H4 ). the website buy old labs .don’t trust it .
try to learn everything before you take the exam
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