I am a student taking a final in Cisco Routing and Switching I on Monday night. The hands on final is gonna require that I connect 5 routers, 2 hubs, and 2 nodes on each router. I have to configure everything and have an end-to-end ping. I have an hour and a half to do this. Do any of you have any suggestions or tricks outside of plain memorization to remember all the commands and what mode to be in for each? I have done this before but with lab partners and my book. I am getting nervous. It's pass or fail...ping or not. Thanks for any help! Andrea

All you need is a ping? Cisco routers will auto-update their routes between each other so all you really need to do is get the ip addresses straight and have a permit icmp any any in all the access lists. I'd put static entries in the arp cache just to be on the safe side -- so a timeout doesn't stall a ping.

Access list! Easy now! I said routing and switching ONE! Access lists start next semester! (smile) Thanks for trying to help. I have been reading and repeating commands for days now, so hopefully I won't screw up come tomorrow night! I am worried about remembering the cabling. I always want to put a straight through from the hub to router instead of from the hub to the PC. I don't know why I have a hard time remembering that. BTW, I just started reading this board a few weeks ago and I am impressed with the information I have found here! Lots of intelligent people here! Thanks again! Andrea