Packet Tracer Lab 7.2.4.2 Reflection

This lab is about RIPv2. The main goal of the activity is to teach the user how to configure RIPv2 in the network. The first thing I had to do was examine the current operation of RIPv1 on each of the routers by using the show ip protocol and show ip route commands. Then I used router rip and then used version 2 to configure RIPv2 on each of the routers. Then to verify that it worked, I used debug ip rip. Since RIPv2 is a classless routing protocol, it cannot have summarized routes because it needs to also support VLSM. If the network administrator does not disable auto-summarization, the RIPv2 could make incorrect decisions. In order to avoid that, I had to disable auto-summary and to do that, I had to enter the router rip command and then the no auto-summary. After that, I had to verify everything was done correctly and I entered the show ip protocols and show ip route commands. The final step was to examine how RIPv2 works and for that, I had to enter the Simulation mode and capture packets.