intermediate·20 min·Paid

The Protocol That Loses Your Subnet Masks

RIP is running on both routers and the LANs still cannot reach each other.

Scenario

Kesterly Mills still runs RIP between its two plant routers, a survivor of a much older network. Both routers are up, both have RIP configured over the correct networks, and the point-to-point link between them works. Hosts on the two plant LANs cannot reach each other. Get the two LANs talking without changing any addressing.

Learning objectives

  • rip
  • classful routing
  • vlsm
  • subnet masks
  • troubleshooting

Topology and configuration

This environment contains 4 devices (2 Hosts, 2 Routers). You configure and troubleshoot the networking skills listed above.

Curriculum topics

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