Question

Design and configure the Star Topology in Packet Tracer with following requirements.

• 4 PCs

• 1 SWITCH

• Connection Cable

Answer 1

You have to follow steps:

1. Drag the 4 PC icon from the left-down corner from END DEVICES

2. Similarly drag a switch from NETWORK DEVICES.

3. Now select Copper Staright-Through wire from the CONNECTIONS part and select each PC(Fast Ethernet 0) and then join the wire to the switch by selecting any Ethernet port in switch.

4.Now for configuration select a PC and goto its CONFIGURATION section ,under that select FastEthernet0 and put an appropriate IP Address (e.g.   192.168.0.1) and click once on Subnet Mask, do the same for all the PC's. Make sure to give different IP addresses.

5.Now the connection has been established. Select the mail symbol to send a message from one PC to another to check whether the connection established is working properly

6. Select to and from PC's from where messages are to be send. Click on Simulation part and see how the messages will get transferred.