Packet racer Lab 1.3.5.2 Reflection

This activity demonstrates how a router using the routing table. Furthermore, the activity also focuses on some key principles of routing tables and routing in general. From reading the instructions for this lab, I learned three key principles of routing:

• Routers make their decisions based on whatever information is made available to them in their routing tables.
• Second, just because one router has a complete routing table, that does not necessarily mean that every other router in the network has the same information.
• Finally, having the routing information about a path from one network to another does not necessitate that there is information for the route back.

In this lab, the first thing I had to do was troubleshoot why PC1 could not successfully ping PC3. So what I did is ping PC1 from PC3 and then when the ping came up unsuccessful, I followed the instructions on how to fix the issue and then finally, viewed the ping from PC1 to PC3 in Simulation mode. Then, I had to resolve the routing issue on R3 which was causing problems with pings. I basically repeated the steps again according to the directions to fix this issue.