Network Topology Explanation

The network topology is a basic topology with 3 routers, 4 switches and 12 host PCs. Each router is connected through a serial DCE connection which is configured with a clock rate 64000. Each router was named Branch, HQ and Remote, respectively. The Branch and Remote routers were each connected with two switches and each switch was connected to 3 host PCs. The topology had 4 subnets and the FastEthernet ports were configured with an IP address of 192.168.1.254, 192.168.2.254, 192.168.3.254, or 192.168.4.254,depending on the location of the port. The serial ports were configured with IP addresses ranging from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.2 to 1.1.1.9 and finally, 1.1.1.10. The routers discovered other routes in the networks through RIP, which I configured and the results of which can be seen in the screenshots under the post "RIP Configured Routing Tables Screenshots". Each router had routes that were directly connected and found through RIP. The other blog post which features screenshots of the fully-functional topology and views of the ports of each router basically shows how many Serial and FastEthernet ports were included in the routers. Each router had 3 WIC-2T modules added to them and one WIC-Cover module. Then I added a NM-8AS module to the routers in order to give it more serial ports to facilitate the necessary Serial ports.