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Part One Final Project

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Emma edited this page Dec 13, 2025 · 4 revisions

Overview

For this final project, you will design a network for a hospital with a main campus and two remote community hospitals.

You will also create an emulation of that network in Packet Tracer with a working configuration.

Scenario

You have been contracted to design a network for a new medical center. You have been provided with the following information:

Facilities

  • Main Campus Hospital:
    • 3 buildings, East, Central, and West
    • Each of the 3 buildings has a distribution switch/router
    • The Data Center is in Central
    • A Border router on Central connects Main Campus to the Internet/ISP
    • A Core Switch in Central connects the Main Campus Distribution Routers and the Main Campus Border Router
  • Community Hospital South
    • 1 Building
    • Has one multi-layer switch acting as a border and distribution router
    • Has edge switches
  • Community Hospital North
    • 1 Building
    • Has one multi-layer switch acting as a border and distribution router
    • Has edge switches

Subnetting

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Basic Network Structure

Assigning Hostnames, IPs and Gateways

Everything in yellow needs to be done, everything in green has been assigned.
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Configure Main Switch + Router

Main Switch

  1. Add all vlans to Vlan Database
  2. Configure fa 0/2 to be a trunk port -> West Distribution
  3. Configure fa 0/3 to be a trunk port -> Central Distribution
  4. Configure fa 0/4 to be a trunk port -> East Distribution
  5. Configure fa 0/1 to be a access port for backbone network-> Main Border
  • int range fa 0/1-4 -> switchport mode trunk -> switchport trunk allowed vlan all

Router

  1. Add all vlans to vlan Database
  2. Configure Interfaces:
  • interface g0/0
  • Router(config-if)#ip address 152.16.10.1 255.255.255.0 -> Wired to ISP Router
  • no shutdown
  • interface g0/1
  • ip address 172.16.10.254 255.255.255.0

Configure Distribution Switches

  1. Enable Routing on all -> add gateways of last resort ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 172.16.10.254
  2. Add VLANs to all
  3. Configure Trunk ports on West Dist.
  • West-Distribution(config)#int range fa 0/1-2
  • West-Distribution(config-if-range)#switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q
  • West-Distribution(config-if-range)#switchport mode trunk
  • Switchport trunk allowed vlan all
  1. Repeat step 3 for fa 0/1-3 in Central Dist.
  2. Repeat step 3 for fa 0/1-2 on East Dist.
  3. Add Vlan 7 interface to West Dist.
  • West-Distribution(config-if)#interface vlan 7
  • West-Distribution(config-if)#ip address 172.16.12.1 255.255.255.0
  • West-Distribution(config-if)#no shutdown
  1. Add vlan 6 interface to East Dist.
  • east-distribution(config-vlan)#int vlan 6
  • east-distribution(config-if)#ip address 172.16.11.1 255.255.255.0
  • east-distribution(config-if)#no shutdown

VLAN Routing - Central Distribution Switch

  1. Interface vlan interfaces (except psych and counseling)
  • interface vlan 2
  • ip address 172.16.0.1 255.255.252.0
  • int vlan 3
  • #ip address 172.16.4.1 255.255.252.0
  • int vlan 4
  • ip address 172.16.8.1 255.255.254.0
  • int vlan 5
  • ip address 172.16.10.1 255.255.255.0
  • int vlan 8
  • ip address 172.16.13.1 255.255.255.0
  • int vlan 9
  • ip address 172.16.14.1 255.255.255.0
  • int vlan 10
  • ip address 172.16.15.1 255.255.255.0


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Configure Edge Switches

  1. Add vlans to databases
  2. West Edge
  • Configure fa 0/1 as a trunk port for vlans 2,3,4,5
  • Configure fa 0/2 as access port for 7 (Counseling-West can ping West-Distribution)
  • configure fa 0/3 as an access port for 2
  1. Main-Central-Edge
  • Configure fa 0/1 as a trunk port
  • Configure fa 0/2 as an access port for 2
  1. Data Central Edge
  • Configure fa 0/1 as a trunk port
  • configure fa 0/2 as an access port for vlan 8
  1. East-Edge
  • Configure fa 0/1 as trunk port
  • Configure fa 0/2 as access port for vlan 6 (Psych-East can ping East-Distribution)

Configuring Backbone Network

  1. Central Distribution is already the gateway for vlan 5
  2. Router has an access port to an interface with ip address 172.16.10.254 (in the vlan 5)
  3. On East Dist.
  • interface vlan 5
  • ip address 172.16.10.2 255.255.255.0
  • no shutdown
  1. On West Dist.
  • interface vlan 10
  • ip address 172.16.10.3 255.255.255.0
  • no shutdown
  1. Make sure all Dist switches have routes to the router - we set this earlier

Enable OSPF

Central Distribution

Central-Distribution(config)#router ospf 1    
Central-Distribution(config-router)#router-id 1.1.1.1     
Central-Distribution(config-router)#network 172.16.0.0 0.0.255.255 area 0

West Distribution

West-Distribution(config)#router ospf 1    
West-Distribution(config-router)#router-id 3.3.3.3    
West-Distribution(config-router)#network 172.16.0.0 0.0.255.255 area 0

East Distribution

east-distribution(config)#router ospf 1    
east-distribution(config-router)#router-id 2.2.2.2    
east-distribution(config-router)#network 172.16.0.0 0.0.255.255 area 0

Enable ospf authentication

On all three:

West-Distribution(config-router)#interface vlan 5     
West-Distribution(config-if)#ip ospf authentication message-digest       
West-Distribution(config-if)#ip ospf message-digest-key 1 md5 NET330

Success

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Note: They were all successfully pinging, I think, before I saved the packet tracer file, so bug? Or I messed up somewhere

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