Question

You are a network technician for a small corporate network. Your organization has several remote employees who usually work from home, but occasionally need to be in the office for meetings. They need to be able to connect to the network using their laptops. The network uses a DHCP server for IP address configuration for most clients. While working in the Lobby, a remote employee asks you to configure her laptop (named Gst-Lap) so she can connect to the network.

The laptop is already configured with a static connection for her home office, but the laptop cannot connect to the network while at the office. You need to configure the TCP/IP properties on the laptop to work on both networks. In this lab, your task is to complete the following:
Record the laptop's static IP and DNS configuration settings.
Configure the laptop to obtain IP and DNS addresses automatically.
Create an alternate TCP/IP connection with static settings.

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

In order to accomplish these tasks, you need to do the following

First, open up the command prompt (CMD) and type in the following command ipconfig ... This will give you both the IP and DNS configuration so that you can record it.

Secondly, right-click on the Ethernet icon on the taskbar, select Properties, then the Networking tab, then Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4), and then click Properties. Here you are going to check the option that says Obtain an IP address automatically and Obtain DNS server address automatically.

Lastly, go over to the General Tab, and enable DHCP. Now, hop over to the Alternate Configuration tab, and select the "User configured" option, and fill in the required information for the static IP address that you want the connection to have.