RIP configuration CCNA Lab

This CCNA lab will train you to configure RIP routing on Cisco devices. After completing this lab, you will have hands-on experience configuring the RIP protocol on Cisco routers.

Complete the tasks assigned in the lab and verify their completion. After completing all the required tasks, you can proceed with other labs and learn additional routing protocols, as well as how to configure them on Cisco devices.

In this CCNA lab, you have to configure two routers. These two routers are connected via Fast Ethernet ports, and you have to configure hostnames on both routers.

After configuring the hostnames, you have to assign IP addresses to the Fast Ethernet ports that are connected to the other router.

You also have to configure descriptions for each port. Descriptions allow network admins to easily identify the purpose of a particular interface, so it is always a best practice to provide a description for the interface. This also helps while troubleshooting any issues with the network. Instead of going through the network diagram, network admins can quickly identify the interface to solve the issue, which saves a lot of time while troubleshooting.

Configuring an MOTD banner is also very commonly used and configured on devices all over the world, so in this lab, we have included the configuration of an MOTD banner.

Finally, after the basic configuration, you can proceed with configuring the RIP routing protocol and enabling version 2 of this protocol.

Advertise the network so routers can learn routes from each other, and disable auto-summary on both routers.

At last, after finishing the configuration, you can try pinging one router from the other. If the configuration is correct, both routers should properly communicate with each other and also should respond to the ping request.

While configuring, it’s a good practice to verify the configuration; so after each configuration, check if you have correctly configured the given task.

Click on verify to check it out.