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What's the difference between Serial DCE and Serial DTE link?

One side of the link (DCE), has to transmit the clock signal, which controls the data rate, and the other side (DTE) receives the clock signal. R1 is DCE here: interface Serial0/0/0 ip address 10.0....
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Different Behaviour of a Router

You don't have to add anything in the 1st case because it's automatic. As there's only one router, it obviously knows everything directly connected to it. When that becomes more than one router, some ...
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Different Behaviour of a Router

Why in the first case, There was no need of adding Routing table Because it's not really true that there was no need of adding a routing table. When you configured the IP addresses and subnets of the ...
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missing Packet tracer physical Tab

Try select Option from menu bar, click "Preference", switch to "Hide" tab and uncheck the "Hide physical tab" box. Hope this helps.
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Why can't I ping in this situation?

You have the 10.0.0.0/8 and 172.16.0.0/16 networks defined on both the middle and right routers. Using auto-summary on both makes each think they own those whole summarized networks, so they will not ...
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Whats's the function of a loopback interface in routing protocols?

The loopback interface is useful because it is an interface with an IP address which never goes down. OSPF, without a specifically defined Router ID, will pick a Router ID on its own. It chooses the ...
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Why can't two hosts (in two different logical networks) connected to each other through cross-over cable communicate?

A host knows if the destination address is on a different network (the same way that you do, by masking the host and destination addresses with the host mask). If the destination is on the same ...
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Why aren't mac addresses of a serial port shown on packet tracer

Serial ports don't have or need MAC addresses. It's as simple as that.
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delete object network in cisco ASA with packet tracert

It's giving you that/those error(s) because removing that object would leave the access-list empty but still existing, which is not possible or allowed, and you can't delete an access-list like that (...
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All OSPF routes lost when interface fails

The message you got is perfectly normal. That is not OSPF crashing, but it is telling you that the neighbor is no longer there. The interface is down, so OSPF cannot communicate with that neighbor. ...
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OSPF - Default route doesn't get advertised to all areas

1. The first issue is that you configured same Router-ID (RID) router-id 1.1.1.1 for R1 and R2 in area 45. All OSPF router should have different RIDs across the OSPF network domain. 2. And the ...
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Multiple access lists on same vlan

You can't have more than one access list per direction on an interface. So, to accomplish this, you will have to create a unique access-list for each interface that allows only the traffic you want.
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Show interfaces brief information

The most common commands are show interfaces show ip interface brief Or for a specific interface show interfaces vlan 1
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What's the difference between Serial DCE and Serial DTE link?

DCE stands for data circuit-terminating, data communications, or data carrier equipment - this is a modem or more generally, a line adapter. DTE stands for data terminal equipment which generally is ...
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What is wrong with this set of routers?

R2's default route points back to R1. Instead it needs to point to R3 via Serial0/0/1.
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Why aren't mac addresses of a serial port shown on packet tracer

MAC Addresses are specific to Ethernet interfaces - serial interfaces are point-to-point and use a different Layer 2 protocol (PPP, HDLC, FR etc.) for communication. EUI-64 is most likely deriving it'...
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Default gateway of host connected to two routers via switch

Because you have not a star-shaped network, you have to define a route to reach each network. Your routes can be : 192.168.2.0/24 via 192.168.1.254 Default via 192.168.1.253 or 192.168.2.0/24 via ...
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inconsistent bad mask error

The mask you were trying to use really is a bad mask. You were trying to use 255.255.225.248. You simply had a typographical error that you eventually corrected. It happens, and it is a big reason ...
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Whats's the function of a loopback interface in routing protocols?

First, loopbacks interfaces are mainly used when we want to establish adjacencies between 2 equipments (i.e. routers) and to be sure that when one link fails, the adjacency will not go down because, ...
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Will STP portfast prevent a loop?

Port fast bypasses the usual STP phases and goes straight into forwarding. This is useful for ports connected to end-devices which use DHCP. It does not stop BPDUs, and there are those who advocate ...
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Calculated window size in Wireshark

This post has a good explanation for what you're seeing. What you see is normal behavior. Both sides send a small window size and neither announce that they are able to use window scaling. So in ...
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OSPF cannot communicate inter-area

You don't have an Area 0. Areas can only talk to Area 0. This is an OSPF basic feature which helps prevent routing loops. Router 1 needs to be in Area 0. Try something like this: Router0: ...
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How to sniff a switched LAN by plugging the laptop into a switch port

The easy part: Use Wireshark for the sniffing. The hard part: In a switched network you need support from the switch to get all the traffic. It is called "port mirroring", "span port", "monitor port" ...
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DHCP Server giving the wrong IP address and DHCP server failed Apipa being used

It appears that some of your ports are in VLANs that do not have ip helper addresses on the router. They won't get addresses from your server.
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Can we run Linux guest OS in Cisco Packet Tracer?

Packet tracer is a simulator unlike GNS3 which is an emulator. so you cant run linux guest os in packet tracer
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Understanding Cisco standard access lists (Packet Tracer example)

Ping is an application that is bidirectional. It sends an ICMP request, and expects an ICMP reply. You have broken the traffic from one direction, so you cannot ping either direction (one way the ...
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Can I connect a PC to a router directly in Packet Tracer?

You'll need a crossover cable to connect two MDI devices without auto-crossover. The switch presents MDI-X. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium-dependent_interface
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Issue with ACL and router on a stick network

With this ACL: ip access-list extended IT_SEGMENT permit ip 10.1.10.0 0.0.0.31 10.1.30.0 0.0.0.31 ! You are limiting traffic coming in from that interface to only the 10.1.30.0/27 network because ...
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