I get involved in a lot of network migration or installation projects.
In some cases, I am not responsible for configuring the equipment, nor do I have access.
Regardless who configured the equipment, I always take a sample trace before I do anything to confirm how the device is configured. For example:
- Is DHCP configured correctly
- same point for DHCP forwarders or ip helper addresses
- am I on the correct vlan
- can I access networks that are allowed? Or blocked
- is DNS working properly
I’m sure you get the idea
In this video I test to ensure that the vlan I’m connected to is behaving as expected as well as the router/DHCP server. Its literally a 2 min video, the point being these tasks do not take a long time.
