Packet Tracer Lab 1.3.4.2 Reflection

After static routing, there is another type of routing called dynamic routing. That is what this lab is about. Unlike static routes, dynamic routes allow routers to automatically discover new networks from other routers, that is just one thing I learned from this lab. Another is that routing tables can contain and manipulate dynamic and static routes. For this lab, I had to configure the RIP on each of the routers and this was very time consuming. After configuring the RIP as the dynamic routing protocol on the routers, the next step was to verify the static and dynamic routes. The lab was incredibly long and to basically sum it up, I had to configure static and dynamic routes in all the routers in order to create a full fledged routing table. In order to verify the routes, I had to use the ping command. Overall, I think this was a good preview of what being a network engineer is like.