Now, start to connect the nodes with each other while the nodes are offline, and repeat for each node till you finish connecting all of them inside the topology; then, start the lab:
The final view after adding IP addresses and some custom shapes to the topology will be as follows:
Now, our topology is ready and should be loaded with basic configuration. I used the following snippet as a configuration base for any Cisco-IOS device that enabled SSH and telnet and configured the username for access. Notice that there ...