Week 6

This week I am to complete Project 6-1 from CompTia Network+ Guide to Networks by Jill West (Cengage 2022, 2019). I am to use the following online simulator:

https://emulator.tp-link.com/EMULATOR_wr810nv2_eu/userRpm/LoginRpm.htm

Upon following the link, I am greeted with a login prompt. After rereading NOTE 6-9 from the textbook, I see that the rather easy to remember username is admin, and the very secure password is also admin. I'd be very amused if I didn't have administrative privileges after logging in.

And that's where the fun ended. Every setting I change resets itself when I hit save. Turns out I am not, in fact, amused that I don't have administrative privileges.

It seems like the textbook is working off the assumption that I am doing this to my actual network (despite its suggestion to use a simulator), which is not an option for me in my current situation.

In all seriousness, I have no idea what I'm meant to do. I can't, for instance, connect an Ethernet cable to an imaginary router. So the following is my best attempt to describe how I would use this software if I were actually setting up a SOHO router using this interface.

First step, let's look at quick setup to see if we can establish sane defaults.

 

 

I would need a very good reason not to use Dynamic IP.

Then I just looked through every tab, and I really didn't need to change anything. By default, it is pretty secure (as far as I can tell).

There are a couple of questions at the end of the exercise:

a. What is the public IP address of the router on the ISP network?

It's dynamic between these two numbers:

b. Why is it necessary for the router to have two IP addresses?

    One is for the LAN one is for the internet at large. Which is to say that one is for the LAN and the other is so the Internet on the other side of the gateway can communicate with the LAN on this side of the gateway.

And unless I'm missing something obvious. That's it.