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Packet Tracer - Who Hears The Broadcast?: Objectives

The document discusses broadcast traffic in VLAN implementations using Packet Tracer. It has students generate broadcast packets within VLANs to observe which devices receive them and answer reflection questions about broadcast and collision domains for switches and VLANs.

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Packet Tracer - Who Hears The Broadcast?: Objectives

The document discusses broadcast traffic in VLAN implementations using Packet Tracer. It has students generate broadcast packets within VLANs to observe which devices receive them and answer reflection questions about broadcast and collision domains for switches and VLANs.

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Packet Tracer - Who Hears the Broadcast?

Objectives
Part 1: Observe Broadcast Traffic in a VLAN Implementation
Part 2: Complete Review Questions

Scenario
In this activity, a 24-port Catalyst 2960 switch is fully populated. All ports are in use. You will observe
broadcast traffic in a VLAN implementation and answer some reflection questions.

Instructions

Step 1: Use ping to generate traffic.


a. Click PC0 and click the Desktop tab> Command Prompt.
b. Enter the ping 192.168.1.8 command. The ping should succeed.
Unlike a LAN, a VLAN is a broadcast domain created by switches. Using Packet Tracer Simulation
mode, ping the end devices within their own VLAN. Based on your observation, answer the questions in
Step 2.

Step 2: Generate and examine broadcast traffic in a VLAN implementation.


a. Switch to Simulation mode.
b. Click Edit Filters in the Simulation Panel. Uncheck the Show All/None checkbox. Check the ICMP
checkbox.
c. Click the Add Complex PDU tool, this is the open envelope icon on the right toolbar.
d. Float the mouse cursor over the topology and the pointer changes to an envelope with a plus (+) sign.
e. Click PC0 to serve as the source for this test message and the Create Complex PDU dialog window
opens. Enter the following values:
o Destination IP Address: 255.255.255.255 (broadcast address)
o Sequence Number: 1
o One Shot Time: 0
Within the PDU settings, the default for Select Application: is PING.
Question:

What are at least 3 other applications available for use?


HTTP, FTP, NETBIOS
Type your answers here.
f. Click Create PDU. This test broadcast packet now appears in the Simulation Panel Event List. It also
appears in the PDU List window. It is the first PDU for Scenario 0.
g. Click Capture/Forward twice.

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Packet Tracer - Who Hears the Broadcast?

Question:

What happened to the packet?


It got transmitted to all pc’s through switches.
Type your answers here.
h. Repeat this process for PC8 and PC16.

Reflection Questions
1. If a PC in VLAN 10 sends a broadcast message, which devices receive it?
All end devices that are connected to VLAN10
1. If a PC in VLAN 20 sends a broadcast message, which devices receive it?
All end devices that are connected to VLAN20
1. If a PC in VLAN 30 sends a broadcast message, which devices receive it?
All end devices that are connected to VLAN30
2. What happens to a frame sent from a PC in VLAN 10 to a PC in VLAN 30?
It gets droped since they aren’t on the same VLAN
3. Which ports on the switch light up if a PC connected to port 11 sends a unicast message to a PC connected
to port 13?
11 and 13
4. Which ports on the switch light if a PC connected to port 2 sends a unicast message to a PC connected to
port 23?
The packet will be dropped.
5. In terms of ports, what are the collision domains on the switch?
Every port is a collision
6. In terms of ports, what are the broadcast domains on the switch?
Every VLAN is it’s own Brodacast domain
End of document

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