New To CCNA need Guidance please on connecting components. 1

[Breazy]

Greetings, I am really new at this and want to do CCNA. I brought some equipment. I am a little overawed by it - so wonder if I could have some guidance?

I got 3 cisco items:

a WS-C1924C-EN switch
2 x 2522 Routers.

I was wondering how to connect them to start with?

I have the transceiver on the switch's AUX port with flat ribbon to the PC. Com1 port

I have connected the dce to dte cable to the two routers (I chose ports serial 0[dce] to serial 2[dte].

Two cross over cables...one each in the switch at ports 1 and 17. No idea where to connect these to?

Can I connect them to the Aux ports on the routers or the 10BT ports?


I want to be able to see all my pieces and be able to telnet to them, from the switch. Am I on the right path with this thought?

If not please set me straight. Thanks in advance.

Apologies for submitting question as a reply in the wrong area.
Breazy

 

[Lundah]

You need two "rollover" cables from the console port of each device to connect your terminal PC for console programming. You will need to use straight-through ethernet cables to connect the switch to the routers, doesn't really matter which port, you can set up VLANs later anyway. There's a bit of programming involved to be able to telnet across everything, since the default config won't have the router ports enabled and nothing will have IP's assigned to it yet.

 

[Breazy]

Lundah, thank you. Appreciate the time it takes to bother with an answer for me.

I am a little bit confused now, the information on the switch says to use a crossover cable on every port marked with an X ie 1x 2x 3x etc... all my ports have an x except A which has a big blobby plug in it with the looks of the figure 8 connection you might see on a stereo or sewing machine type power supply end. [not the gpo end]

I can move the cable with the tranceiver to each device to set ports and telnet initially to do some programming.

The confusion now is the cross-over cables. Can I do anything with them to connect the routers to the switch, once I have programming in place?

Also I brought some more DCE/DTE cables, while I only have 1Sw 2R can I configure to look like a bigger frame relay cloud? Thats a bit ahead of me now, but a thought for later.

Again, thank you, or anyone else that wishes to step in with an answer.
Breazy

 

[Lundah]

The rule when determining if you need to use a straight-through or crossover is you use a crossover when connecting like devices (switch-to-switch, router-to-router). For connections between different layer devices (switch-to-router, pc-to-switch), use a straight-through.