Creating a simple topology

Creating a simple topology:

Now that you're familiar with the GUI of Packet Tracer, you can create your first network topology by carrying out the following steps:

1. From the network component box, click on End Devices and drag-and-drop a Generic PC icon and a Generic laptop icon into the Workspace.
2.  Click on Connections, then click on Copper Cross-Over, then on PC0, and select FastEthernet. After this, click on Laptop0 and select FastEthernet. The link status LED should show up in green, indicating that the link is up.
3. Click on the PC, go to the Desktop tab, click on IP Configuration, and enter an IP address and subnet mask. In this topology, the default gateway and DNS server information is not needed as there are only two end devices in the network.
4. Close the window, open the laptop, and assign an IP address to it in the same way. Make sure that both of the IP addresses are in the same subnet. We'll be learning more about end device configuration in Chapter 3, Generic IP End Devices. http://freepdf-books.com Getting Started with Packet Tracer [ 12 ]
5. Close the IP Configuration box, open the command prompt, and ping the IP address of the device at the end to check connectivity.

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