This exercise is taken from our 70-642 - Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure Configuration Practice-Lab course and continues our series of free demos from our paid courses. If you like this demo and want to get more involved with Microsoft Server 2008 then our individual Server 2008 courses, or our Server 2008 bundle is just for you.
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This is a modified sample from our Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure Configuration course, it has been modified to enable it to flow correctly as a standalone module.
In this exercise you will perform the tasks required to configure the routing protocol RIPv2 on Windows Server 2008 R2. Please refer Microsoft Technet to gain further understanding of this routing protocols configuration.
In this exercise you will be required to Power On and connect to the following servers from your Practice-Lab application:
Domain Controller
Domain Server
Standalone Server
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Configuring RIPv2
RIPv2 is a dynamic routing protocol that advertises and receives routing information from other neighbors that are also configured with the RIPv2 protocol. Using dynamic routing protocols are a much simpler way to manage your routing tables over using static route entries, albeit if you only have a few static routes to deal with RIPv2 may not be the answer.
Before starting this exercise you will need to ensure that the Network Policy and Access Services > Routing and Remote Access Services are installed on all 3 of the servers in this lab, the Domain Controller, Domain Server and the Standalone Server.
Power on each of the servers if you havent done so already.
Step 1
Repeat this step for each of the servers in the lab!
Once the server is powered on, click the Connect button to connect to the servers desktop. Once the desktop is shown open Server Manager in the taskbar.
Once Server manager has loaded, click on the Roles and click the Add Roles link in the top right of the Roles screen.
The Add Roles Wizard will appear, click Next on the before you begin page .
On the Select Server Roles page, check the Network Policy and Access Services role and click Next .
Click Next at the Network Policy and Access Services introduction page.
On the Select Role Services page, check the Routing and Remote Access Services roles (ensure the children are selected) and then click Next .
Click Install to start the installation.
Once the installation has completed click the Close button.
Step 2
Next we need to configure the role, and add RIPv2 as a routing protocol. Again, follow this step for all the servers in lab.
In Server manager, expand out Roles > Network Policy and Access Services . You will notice that the Routing and Remote Access service is stopped, as shown by the red circle icon.
Right click the service and select the option to Configure and Enable Routing and Remote Access
Click Next at the Welcome page.
At the Configuration page, choose Custom configuration and click Next
At the Custom configuration page select Lan Routing and click Next
Click Finish to complete the installation and when prompted Start the service
Step 3
On each of the servers in the lab, configure RIP as follows.
In server manager, expand Network Policy and Access Services > Routing and Remote Access > IPv4 .
Right click on General and select New Routing Protocol
Select Rip Version 2 for Internet Protocol and press OK
A new entry under IPv4 will appear in the list.
Right click the new RIP entry and select New Interface .
On the Domain Controller and Domain Server you will see just one interface which is your Local Area Connection on the Standalone Server you will notice there are two interfaces. For the Standalone Server repeat this process for both interfaces:
Select the interface in the list and press OK
The RIP configuration window appears. Notice that the configuration is per-interface , for our example, we can happily accept the defaults and press OK . If you wanted to filter out specific neighbours, change the protocol version or authentication settings, you could do so on this page.
To view the routing table once RIP has sent out its advertisements to the neighbors you can view the updates on each server by either using the route print command in a command prompt, or right click on the Static routes link and select Show ip routing table
If you have configured everything correctly you will notice a single entry in the routing table that has been populated by RIP this is the second interface on the Standalone server which has a network address of 192.168.2.0 /24. This route is highlighted in the screenshot below:
The screenshot below shows the entry from the route print command:
Summary
In this exercise you configured the dynamic routing protocol RIPv2 , you also saw how a network address that is not on the receiving servers local interface list populates route entries in to your servers routing table dynamically, this is the power of dynamic routing tables.
Also try
- Try changing the subnet address on Local Area Connection 2 on the Standalone Server , what happens to the route (an example would be 192.168.10.0 with a mask of 255.255.255.0)?
- Add in authentication settings to RIPv2 so that you authenticate only the Domain Servers and exclude the Standalone Server, what happens to the route entry from the Standalone Server?
And finally
The above exercise gives you an insight to what you can achieve in a Practice-Lab. Being able to learn, discover and explore new topics and tools without the fear of compromising production environments.
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