Discuss your approach to completing this Hands-on Assignment. (1) Were there any pitfalls that you encountered that might help others? (2) How did you use the tracert results to make a subnet diagram that showed the subnets between the three networks?

(1) Were there any pitfalls that you encountered that might help others?

The main pitfall I encountered was connecting rhnet.is back to my computer. Despite multiple attempts to have the traceroute fully connect, it would not happen. So, I had to make the connection from rhnet.is to erik.co.uk instead to get the data for the final network, which fortunately worked immediately. I would recommend this not only for saving time but also to provide a reversed order of the second connection from Net B to Net C. Another small pitfall was having to deal with asterisks and periods from my other connections. While they can be annoying, they are not a significant problem, and ironically enough, the recommendation I would make is to have some patience for the remainder of the output to print.

(2) How did you use the tracert results to make a subnet diagram that showed the subnets between the three networks?

My method for using the traceroute results for the subnet diagram was to focus on the IP addresses. I went through each line of all three networks and then used the first two octets of each IP address to be representative of routers that move packets across the network. Due to the beginnings and ends of the networks overlapping with the same first two octets of IP addresses each time, this allowed for simple lines to connect each end.