Project Title

Packet Tracer Simulation

Team's Vision

- To learn through trials, challenges and error

- To design a Packet Tracer that will have more functions and more user-friendly

- Allow students studying FIT or CCNA to have a better understanding and concept about internetworking

Description

Packet Tracer is a stand-alone, medium-fidelity simulation environment for networking novices to design, configure, and troubleshoot CCNA-level networks.First create a network topology using a drag-and-drop interface. The devices chosen may then be interconnected and configured via a GUI. Additionally, switches and routers may be configured by a limited simulated version of Cisco IOS.

After interconnecting and configuring devices, students can enter simulation mode. This causes RIP v2 routing updates and a form of STP to be executed. Then define packets with various characteristics and watch the animation of the packet’s route through the network. Due to a discrete-time model, they may follow the packet as it encounters different network devices, in a step-by-step or continuous movie mode. At any point in a packet’s journey it may be stopped, its headers examined, and its processing according to device algorithms explored. In addition, it can also enter realtime mode, an environment where pings may be issued to diagnose basic connectivity.

Technologies and Protocols supported include:

-Console, straight-thru, cross-over, serial, fiber, wireless, and modem connections
-Limited Cisco IOS CLI configuration of switches and routers
-Switches, including port characteristics, VLAN database, VLANs, Trunking
-Routers, including ACLs, VLSM, simple NAT and PAT, and a form of DHCP
-Routing, including RIP v2, static and default routes, and load balancing
-Clouds, bridges, hubs, access points, repeaters, PCs, servers, printers
-Views of bridging, switching, and routing tables, OSI encapsulation, Link -Status
-Ping, Extended Ping, and traceroute capability
-Modeling of many OSI Layer 1, 2, 3, and 4 features

Packet Tracer is based on three learning principles learning is active, learning is social, and learning is contextual. Hence it is meant to facilitate the creation of engaging, collaborative, and localized instructional materials.