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IP Addressing Troubleshooting Capstone Bundle lab · $29.99
Advanced IP addressing capstone, run as a fault hunt. A branch build has been handed over and nothing quite works: one LAN cannot reach its gateway, a transit link behaves as though the two ends are on different networks, one router will not accept traffic on a point-to-point link, and two devices answer to the same loopback. You get symptoms and the required end state — no fault list. Every fault is an addressing decision that looks plausible until it is checked against the mask.
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Learning objectives Diagnose addressing faults from operational state, with no list of what was changed Check an address against its mask rather than reading it as a number — including network and broadcast boundaries Recognise a mask mismatch on a transit link, where both ends look correctly numbered Spot a duplicated loopback and reason about what it breaks Repair faults across three routers Troubleshooting focus Correlate ping failures with interface summaries and per-interface running config Differentiate on-link vs off-subnet behavior driven by masks Confirm ARP and local vs routed decision-making for directly-connected subnets What's included in the package Work / baseline CML import — lab-work.yaml Topology diagram — topology.svg Print-ready topology diagram (PDF) — topology.pdf Step-by-step learner guide (Markdown — for Obsidian/VS Code) — lab-guide.md Branded PDF lab guide — open in any viewer (Adobe/Preview) — lab-guide.pdf Getting-started README — README.md Verification checklist — verification-checklist.md How this lab is graded Build it your way. Where a lab lets you choose a value — a VLAN name, an interface description — grading checks that you configured it, not which name you picked. Names that another line has to reference, like an ACL applied with access-class, are stated in the guide and do have to match.Addresses, modes and protocol keywords are exact. An IP address, a subnet mask, switchport mode trunk, an encapsulation — these carry the meaning of the lab, so they are graded as written in the guide.Grading reads your saved configuration. Export the lab from CML after you have configured it, and make sure anything you set is in the running-config — a change that only exists in a terminal session never reaches the grader.You can submit as many times as you like. Your best score stands, and each attempt tells you which checks passed so you can work the gaps.Scored something you believe is correct? Use Report an issue on this page — that is exactly how the grading fixes in the changelog got found. Download access New here? See how the download → build in CML → grade loop works.
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