ITNE2003 Lab Tutorial 11

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ITNE2003
Install, Configure, Operate and Troubleshoot Medium-Sized Networks
Lab Tutorial – 11 of Lesson - 11
Victorian Institute of technology
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Task Assignment

Objectives:

Part 1: Build the Network and Verify Connectivity

Part 2: Configure and Verify Static NAT

Part 3: Configure and Verify Dynamic NAT

Background / Scenario

Network Address Translation (NAT) is the process where a network device, such as a Cisco router, assigns a public address to host devices inside a private network. The main reason to use NAT is to reduce the number of public IP addresses that an organization uses because the number of available IPv4 public addresses is limited.

In this lab, an ISP has allocated the public IP address space of 209.165.200.224/27 to a company. This provides the company with 30 public IP addresses. The addresses, 209.165.200.225 to 209.165.200.241, are for static allocation and 209.165.200.242 to 209.165.200.254 are for dynamic allocation. A static route is used from the ISP to the gateway router, and a default route is used from the gateway to the ISP router. The ISP connection to the Internet is simulated by a loopback address on the ISP router.

The IP addressing for the network is shown on topology. Using that, we can complete the addressing table as follows:

Network Address Plan

Based on the given information we fill the addressing table that shows IP addresses and subnet masks assigned to devices in our topology.

Device	Interface	IP Address	Subnet Mask	Default Gateway
Gateway	F0/0	192.168.1.1	255.255.255.0	N/A
	S0/0/1	209.165.201.18	255.255.255.252	N/A
ISP	S0/0/0 (DCE)	209.165.201.17	255.255.255.252	N/A
	Lo0	192.31.7.1	255.255.255.255	N/A
PC-A (Simulated Server)	NIC	192.168.1.20	255.255.255.0	192.168.1.1
PC-B	NIC	192.168.1.21	255.255.255.0	192.168.1.1

Network Topology

Below, there is a figure showing our topology that has been created in Packet Tracer simulation tool.

We have divided our network configuration three parts:

Building the network and verify connectivity (Administrative configuration, IP assignment and static route configuration)
Configure and verify static NAT
Configure and verify dynamic NAT

Administrative Configuration

As previous tutorials we first start with Administrative Configuration on Gateway and ISP routers that includes the following:

Disable DNS lookup.
Configure device name as shown in the topology.
Assign class as the console and vty passwords.
Assign cisco as the encrypted privileged EXEC mode password.
Configure logging synchronous to prevent console messages from interrupting the command entry.

Gateway