How to ping a PC on a different subnet using Cisco Packet Tracer 💻
Hope this will be useful if you’re willing to work with Computer Networking or if you’re already a Cisco Packet Tracer user… 😎
On here I’m going to briefly explain about how to ping a PC on a different subnet but in the same network.
You can refer the images that I’ve posted along this to easily understand what’s going on… Let’s move into the explanation.. 👀
First you have to open a new worksheet in Cisco Packet Tracer. And place 4 PCs as showed below. Two of them (PC0 & PC1) should be connected to a switch (SW0) and other two (PC2 & PC3) should be connected to another switch (SW1). Place a router between the switches. Connect them using appropriate links. 💻
PC — SW → straight-through
SW — Router → straight-through
Then you should give IP addresses and subnet masks to the PCs. PC0 & PC1 should be in the same subnet. PC2 & PC3 should also be in the same subnet, but consider that they’re in different subnets and that two subnets are in the same network as follows;
Subnet1 → PC0 , PC1
Subnet2 → PC2 , PC3
Network1 → PC0 , PC1 , PC2 , PC3
Network1 → Subnet1 , Subnet2
Here will be an example about how to assign IP addresses and subnet masks.
PC0 → 10.1.1.1 / 255.255.0.0
PC1 → 10.1.1.2 / 255.255.0.0
PC2 → 10.2.1.1 /255.255.0.0
PC3 → 10.2.1.2 /255.255.0.0
Then open the CLI of the router and assign an new IP address which is in the same subnet as PC0 & PC1 to the 0/0/0 interface.
Do the same thing related to 0/0/1 interface of the router.
All the commands to do that is given below.
After that the IP address which is assigned to the 0/0/0 ; should be assigned as the default gateway of PC0.
And the IP address which is assigned to the 0/0/1 ; should be assigned as the default gateway of PC2.
Then you can open the Command Promt of PC0 and ping PC2.
Command : ping 10.2.1.1
If you could see 4 replies from PC2 ; that’s it 😇
Hope you have an idea about how to do it through this.
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