Hands-On: Configure a Small Office Network

This capstone lesson is for combining everything you've learned in the flow of a real design. You'll experience the end-to-end sequence of configuring a small office switch from scratch, just as it happens in practice.

Set the hostname → configure the port interfaces → create and assign VLANs → add the static route → save with copy running-config startup-config: this sequence is the most fundamental procedure in network construction.

In Try It, run show running-config and you'll see the accumulated result of everything configured so far — output very close to a real device's configuration.

A common stumble is knowing each command individually but freezing when it comes to the order of operations. Remember the flow — name it, configure it, segment it, route it, save it — and you won't get lost.

In real work, opening a new office or replacing network equipment follows exactly this procedure, building the configuration up from zero.