Using Packet Tracer to Enhance Student

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Using Packet Tracer to Enhance Students Learning
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Agenda

• Introduction to Packet Tracer
• Show Examples
• Packet Tracer Troubleshooting Activity
• Lab 6.3.2
• Case Study

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What is Packet Tracer?

• Packet Tracer is an interactive tool for learning
  the basic operations of various networking
  devices at the data link and network layer of the
  OSI model.
• It is intended to teach beginning networking
  students how and why devices in a network work
  the way they do.
• A student using this simulation tool is able to
  build their own computer networks, and observe
  the behavior of data frames and packets as they
  traverse through routers, switches, and other
  devices.

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Why should I use Packet Tracer?

• Packet Tracer will enhance the learning
  experience of the students.
• These interactive activities will help further
  explain and reinforce the material learned in
  lectures or online.
• It is a powerful instructional tool that was
  adopted by the Cisco Networking Academy to help
  instructors teach the curriculum.

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How can I use Packet Tracer?

• The instructor may easily integrate Packet Tracer
  into a lecture.
• Packet Tracer may be used to reinforce
  information learned after the student reads the
  curriculum and the instructor lectures on the
  material.

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How can I use Packet Tracer?

• The instructor may assign a task of designing a
  network with certain specifications.
• The instructor may then evaluate the students
  networks by sending packets across the network.
• The instructor may also provide pre-designed
  networks that do not work perfectly, and assign
  the students the task of troubleshooting the
  network.

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What kind of equipment can be used to create
topologies?

• Topologies can be built using the following
  equipment
• Router l Repeater
• Cloud l Hub
• Switch l Wireless Access Point
• Bridge l PC

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What type of interfaces can be used to
interconnect devices?

• The following interfaces can be selected to
  interconnect hardware devices
• Ethernet (copper)
• Fast Ethernet (copper and fiber)
• Gigabit Ethernet (copper and fiber)
• Serial
• Modem
• Wireless

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What routing algorithms do the routers use in
Packet Tracer?

• Routers in Packet Tracer use RIP version 1 or 2.
• The routers exchange routing information
  dynamically to build their routing tables.

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Building the topology
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What routing algorithms do the routers use in
Packet Tracer?

• One of the most valuable aspects of Packet Tracer
  is the ability to run simulations after creating
  networks.
• The user can create the network, and then create
  several different scenarios of sending packets
  from different sources to different destinations.
  
• The network along with these scenarios can be
  saved and used again.

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Creating simulations
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Where can I get Packet Tracer

• Packet Tracer is free for Cisco Networking
  Academy instructors and students.
• It may be downloaded on the Cisco Networking
  Academy Connection Site.
• Log in to Academy Connection ? Go to Tools ? CCNA
  Course 1 4 ? Packet Tracer
• Version 3.2 is currently available

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How long will it take me to learn Packet Tracer?

• A person with basic networking skills can learn
  how to use Packet Tracer and build basic
  simulations in less than one hour.
• Packet Tracers help documents provide several 5
  to 10 minute tutorials that can help users
  quick-start on this program.

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Put Packet Tracer to work in your classroom
today.