- [David Bombal] In this video,
I'm gonna show you how to download, and install,
Cisco Packet Tracer on a laptop.
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- In this example, I've got a Windows 10 laptop
which I'm controlling from my Mac.
That just makes it easier to do the recordings,
but I'm gonna show you how to download
and install Cisco Packet Tracer on this laptop.
Now, why would you want to use Cisco Packet Tracer?
Cisco Packet Tracer is firstly free,
you can download it by simply registering for a course
on Cisco's website.
You don't have to pay for the course,
you don't actually have to take the course,
you simply need to register on Cisco's website
and then you'll be able to download
Cisco Packet Tracer for free.
So, it's free software that you
can run on your laptop that allows you
to simulate quite complex circuit topologies these days.
So, you can run Cisco routers and switches,
you can run servers, you can run PCs,
you can create fairly complex topologies.
If you studying for your CCNA, as an example,
Cisco Packet Tracer is enough to pass the CCNA.
It's not perfect, it's a simulator rather than an emulator,
so it doesn't fully simulate Cisco IOS,
but it has enough in it to give you a good foundation
in networking and a good understanding
of the topics for the CCNA exam.
So, if you're new to networking, if you're new to Cisco,
I'd recommend that you start with
Cisco Packet Tracer and then later
on you can look at technologies, or applications,
such as GNS3, Cisco Viral, and EVE NG.
Now, I've created a whole bunch of Packet Tracer labs.
You can access some of those labs by using the link below.
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Okay, without further adieu, let me
show you how to bold a Packet Tracer Lab.
So, the first thing I'm gonna do
is simply search for Cisco Packet Tracer in google.
First hit is the Cisco Networking Academy.
Now, they've recently changed the login process
on the Cisco Networking Academy website.
In the past, you had a dedicated
email address for this website, now
it uses your Cisco.com login.
And, we're told that here to login.
If you have an existing Cisco.com account, use
that email and password to login,
if not, use your NetAcad email and password to login.
Now, if you don't have an account,
scroll down and click enroll to
download Packet Tracer.
This course is an introduction to
Cisco Packet Tracer, it's a good
course, but you don't have to go through it.
It's 10-hours in length, it is free, but again,
you don't have to go through it
if you don't want to.
Go to sign up today, and select English
as your language and put in your
details such as your first name,
your last name, and your email address.
This email address has to be valid
because they will email you a link
which you have to click on to
complete the enrollment process.
So, we told that we need to check our email
and click on the "get started" link
to access your account.
Okay, so here's my email from the
Cisco Networking Academy.
I'm gonna click activate account.
You now need to fill in your details.
Now, one of the pieces of advice that
I'll give you is if you don't
work for a company, set the company name to "self".
As in self employed.
So, specify your country,
specify your password, decide whether you
want to get email notifications or not,
put the capture information in
and then click register.
Now, you can sign in with your email address,
Specify your password, and click sign in.
Now, we're told that they're excited
to have us join them, but we need to fill
in some more details, so as an
example, specify your gender, specify your state,
specify how many years of experience
you have in IT or Networking, specify
if you have a disability, specify your birthdate.
So, they ask for quite a bit of information here.
Specify your race, if you want to.
I'm gonna choose not to disclose that.
Specify whether you've served in
the military and click create account.
Okay, so now that you've done that,
you can launch the course if you want to.
I'm not gonna do that, I'm gonna go
to resources, download Packet Tracer.
And what I'm gonna do is download
the 64-bit version of Packet Tracer.
This is version 7.2.2, they also
have a Linux version and a Mac OS version,
but I'm gonna download the 64-bit Windows version.
As you can see here, it's downloading.
Okay, so the file has downloaded.
Here it is, Packet Tracer 7.2.2 win64 setup.
To install it, it's a fairly simple process,
I'm gonna double click on the application,
click install anyway, click yes to
allow this app to make changes to my device.
You need to accept the license agreement,
so read through the license agreement
and accept it if you want to install the
software and click next.
I'm gonna mainly stay with the default
to keep it as simple as possible.
So, I'm gonna use the default installation directory.
Click next, I'm gonna leave the
startup menu folder at the default.
Click next, I'm gonna allow the software
to create a desktop shortcut and click next.
And then I'm gonna click install.
So, fairly basic installation.
Similar to lots of other applications
that you would install on a Windows computer.
The software's installed and I'm
now told that "For Packet Tracer
Skills Based Assessment to use this
version of Packet Trace, please close all
web browsers or restart your computer."
I'm gonna click okay, shut my web browser, and click finish.
I'm told that I'm running Packet Tracer for the
first time, so files will be saved here.
I can change that later, but I'm gonna click okay.
Packet Tracer's now started, and now
I can login with the same credentials
that I used on Cisco's website,
or on the NetAcad website.
So, I'll specify my username,
I'll specify my password, and click sign in.
Now, the firewall is blocking some
features, so I'm gonna click allow access
for private networks.
And there we go, Packet Tracer
is now installed on my Windows computer.
I downloaded it and installed it,
but now lets build some topologies.
Packet Tracer supports many devices
such as routers, switches, hubs,
wireless devices, and others.
Here's a router, so I'll click on the
router and then click on the workspace area.
I'll select another router, add it
to the topology, select a switch,
lets take a modern switch, such as
a 3650 and drop that into the topology.
I'll select connections, there are
various types of connections, such as
straight through cables, crossover cables,
fiber cables, and so forth.
But I'm gonna select straight through,
select the first ethernet connection
on my router, select the first ethernet
connection on my switch, I'll select
straight through cable again.
Select the second interface on the switch,
select the first gigabyte interface
on the router and I'll zoom in here to
make it easier to see what's going on.
There are a lot of option available
in Packet Traces, so under options preferences,
I can select this option,
"always show portal labels in logical workspace."
So, I can now see the interface labels in my topology.
What I also want to change is the font,
because this is probably gonna be too small for me.
So, I'm gonna set the CLI font to 18 and click apply.
And then close this down.
You can move devices around in your topology.
You can rename them, so I'll rename
this as "router 1", I'll rename this
as "router 2", I'll rename this as "switch 1".
Now, if you don't like the way
these interface labels are set up,
simply go to options, preferences once again,
and then uncheck this option and then
you can manually add your interface labels.
You can also hide the router type by going to options,
preferences, and un-selecting this option,
show device model labels,
but I wanna keep device name labels
so I know the device names in my topology.
I'll go back and display port labels for the moment.
You can remove those and then manually
add interface labels, so you may
prefer doing it this way where you can
control where the interface labels go.
So, I'll do that just to make the topology nicer.
So, something like that.
There basically a lot of options here
that you can use, depending on your preferences.
So, there you go, there's my topology.
What I'm gonna do on router 1 is go to CLI.
Now, I've set the font quite big,
but notice the router has booted
and I can now access a router.
Now, if you're not use to Cisco,
this is known as user prompt, or user mode.
When I use question mark here,
various commands are displayed.
Enable is how I get to privilege mode, or enable mode.
I can type a few characters and then press tab.
Question mark shows me other options,
but I'm simply gonna type enable here.
This gives me other commands that I can use in this mode.
I'm gonna type "conf t" which is basically
configure terminal for short.
I used tab there to order complete commands.
I can change the name of the router, and actually,
this is router 2, so I'll set the host name to router 2.
Back in my topology, this interface
is connected to the switch, but
to make it more logical lets start with router 1.
So, router 1 CLI.
Make that bigger, I don't wanna
enter the initial configuration dialogue,
so I'm gonna say no and press enter to get started.
Type "en" tab enter; that takes me to privilege mode.
CONF as in configure, tab, t, tab, enter.
Takes me to global config mode on the router.
I can now set a host name, so this is host, tab, R1.
Changed the host name of the router.
Other commands exist in this mode,
so question mark will show me the
commands available to me.
Now, this router has this interface
which connects it to the switch.
So, on router 1, I can go onto interface gigabyte,
and I'm pressing tab here to order complete,
000, no shutdown enables the interface.
By default, router interface is a shutdown.
IP address allows me to configure
an IP address on the router and I'll
configure it with this IP address.
So, I've configured the router
with an IP address of 10111 subnet
mask: 255.255.255.0.
End takes me back to privilege mode,
or enable mode, and I should be able to ping
myself on that interface.
At the moment, it's not working because
notice these interfaces are down
the switch, by default, is powered off.
So, in this case, I need to take
a power module and add it to the switch
to essentially power on the switch.
And here you can see the switch is now booting up.
So, once the switch is fully booted,
the interfaces will go green.
You can see this is green on this side,
orange over here, this side is still
red because I haven't no shut the
interface on router 2.
Switch interfaces, by default, come up.
Router interfaces, by default, are shutdown
so you have to enable them.
So, on the router, CLI, on Router 1,
I can see the interface came up,
so the router can now ping itself.
But lets go to router 2, and I know
this is not gonna look great, but I'm
going to make this smaller, so you can see
what happens when I no shut the interface on the router.
So, on router 2, make that a bit bigger,
interface, so INT tab, gigabyte tab,
g tab, so gigabyte 000.
Notice, please, what happens when I type no shutdown.
Interface went green, so I've enabled that interface.
IP address that I'll configure here
is 10112, mask 255.255.255.0.
Hopefully, router 2 will be able
to ping router 1 once the interfaces
have all gone green, which they have.
The reason why these interfaces were
orange is because a spanning tree;
spanning tree is a way to stop loops in
a ethernet network, and in this
case, it took a while for spanning tree
to converge, in other words, make sure
that everything was good.
So, I've successfully built a topology,
using Packet Tracer,
and I've successfully sent traffic from one
router to another router through a switch in Packet Tracer.
Last thing to do is save the configuration
and you can do that by typing
"copy running config startup config" and
saving it, or you can use an old command "WR"
which is write, so basically writing the configuration.
So, I've now built a topology in Packet Tracer.
When I close Packet Tracer, I'm told that my changes will
be lost, do I want to save them.
And the answer is yes, so I'm gonna
save this as my first Packet Tracer lab and click save.
And there you go, start Packet Tracer
up once again,
go to file,
open recent files,
select my Packet Tracer lab, and
I've been able to restore my Packet Tracer lab
that I saved previously.
If I look at the CLI of router 1,
we should notice that it has an
IP address
as previously configured,
show run allows me to see the running
config of the router, and what you'll notice
is that IP address is configured on gigabyte 000.
And now that the links have gone green,
I should be able to ping router 2, which I'm able to do.
This first ping times out, because the
router has to op for the MAC address of the other router.
So, that's normal behavior.
Okay, so there you go, I've shown
you how to download, install, and use Cisco Packet Tracer.
Great software, it's free, helps you
a lot with labs, especially if you're
studying for your CCNA exam.
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I'm David Bombal, and I wanna wish you all the very best.