How to configure a Home Cisco Lab

[aceman040]

First time posting, I am trying to configure a home Cisco Lab and I am stuck. Currently I have the following: A Cisco 3640 Router using e0/0: 192.168.1.103 (connected to my home Wireless Network Netgear Nighthawk - 192.168.1.1), e1/0: 192.168.2.1 (connected to a Cisco 3500 Switch). I have a HP server connected to the Switch and it can not ping the Netgear Router or get out to the internet. I have configured NAT inside on the e1/0 and NAT outside on the E0/0 on the Router. I have configured a default route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 and nothing seems to work. (I could send my configs if that would) I have also configured trunking on the switch port that the Router is connected to. I am stuck! Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!( I want to keep my Home lab separate from the Home Wireless network to be use DHCP, DNS, AD, etc... without affecting my home WLAN users.)

 

[SirSub42]

I would love to see your configs, if you can upload them to pastebin (or anything similar), and delete the passwords, if any, then send a message my way with the links, or simply reply with the links. But a couple quick questions

Can the HP server ping the e1/0 interface on the 3640? What subnet are you using for each interface, and depending on the subnet, what routing protocol are you running on the 3640? If you connect the HP server directly to the e1/0 interface, are your pings to the 192.168.1.1 interface successful?

Off the top of my head (From what I remember from my CCNA courses), I am thinking bad subnets, bad switch (try a different port, any sort of security that may be limiting traffic), perhaps the default route was not propagated, incorrect routing configurations among others. Once I hear back from you, we should be able to eliminate most of these possibilities. But if you can connect the HP server to each interface getting closer to the nighthawk each time, we can narrow down where the connectivity problem is located at.

Look forward to hearing back, it has been a while since I have completed any sort of packet tracer labs so this should be quite exciting. - Sub

 

[bill001g]

Change the port on the switch to access mode.

You need a special configuration on the router when you want to use it on a trunked port. Very technically there is no support for vlan tagging on 10m ports. Cisco though does sorta support it. I don't remember what software level on the 3600 you need to make it work or if you can even do it. I do know things like 2610 and 2611 did support it. Still I would not use these since it does not support the common method of defining the native/untagged vlan.

Although real equipment is nice to have a 3640 is a boat anchor when it comes to usefulness in the current certifications. You need something that can run at least 12.4 ios and more and more you need 15.x software to implement many of the configurations. Even the NAT you are trying to configure has another way to configure it if you choose.

Pretty much people use GNS 3 and packet tracer to get all the way to CCNP and then decide if they need to buy or rent when they chase CCIE. 10yrs ago when I got my CCIE there were not these nice simulators you could practice somethings on so you paid a fortune for lots of routers.