Trouble Tickets

Complete the following trouble tickets in order. Use the information and tools from this chapter and the previous chapters to analyze, test, and document as you go. Feel free to create your own Physical Layer or other problems if you need more practice in that area. Sample solutions are provided after this section.

Trouble Ticket 1

Review the VTP and VLAN configurations of both switches in their current state. Use the reload command on the 3512XL IOS device and the reset system command on the 2900 CatOS box to perform a warm boot of them. Do you anticipate any VLAN issues?

Trouble Ticket 2

Configure hosta or the 3512XL so that it will monitor the activity of port fa0/3 to fa0/5. Turn on Sniffer Pro. Create VLAN30 and associate it with port fa0/3 to fa0/5 on the 3512XL, but do not allow it to cross the trunk to the 2900. Show the VLAN database.

Trouble Ticket 3

Erase the configuration on the 3512XL. What is the impact on your VLAN environment?

Trouble Ticket 4

Paste your backup file to reload the configuration on the 3512XL.

Trouble Ticket 5

Change the 3512XL to VTP server mode with a domain name of donna. Create VLAN400 and 500 on the 3512XL. Clear the configuration on the 2900. Reset the 2900 and analyze the results.

Trouble Ticket 6

Verify that hosta and hostc can telnet to r3. Show the configuration of r3 so that you can review the router-on-a-stick configuration once again. Configure an access list to only allow hosta to telnet to r3. Verify that other devices can still ping and trace r3. Remove the ACL after your testing.

Trouble Ticket 7

Change the password and perform a password recovery on the CatOS 2900 switch. Perform the same for the 3512XL IOS switch.