Practical-4
Aim:Installation of CISCO packet tracer & Analysis of Various
tools,functioning devices in logical platform.
Packet Tracer is computer software that is designed with the purpose of
making network simulations to understand the networking and cyber security
concepts in an easy way. It is built by Cisco Corporation and is available for
free for different operating systems like macOS, Windows, Linux, etc. It is
easy to use with a simple interface.
Installing Packet Tracer on Windows
Follow the below steps to install Packet Tracer on Windows:
Step 1: Visit the official website of Netacad using any web browser.
Step 2: Press the login button and select logIn option.
Select-log-In-option
Step 3: Next screen will appear, click on the sign-up option.
Click-on-the-sign-up-option
Step 4: Next screen will appear and will ask for email and password and
other simple details, fill them and click on Register.
Click-on-Register
Step 5: Now the login screen appears again so fill in the Email id.
Login-using-Email-id
Step 6: On the next screen enter the password and press the Login
button.
Press-the-Login-button
Step 7: Dashboard will initialize, now click on Resources and choose
Download Packet Tracer Option.
Choose-Download-Packet-Tracer-Option
Step 8: On the next web page choose the operating system to download
the packet tracer. Downloading will start automatically.
Downloading-will-start-automatically
Step 9: Next screen is of License Agreement so Click on I accept the
license.
Click-on-I-accept-the-license
Step 10: Choose the installing location which has sufficient space.
Choose-the-installation-location
Step 11: Now the packet tracer is ready to install so click on the Install
button.
Click-on-the-Install-button
Step 12: The installation process will start and will hardly take a minute.
Wait-for-the-installation-process
Step 13: Click on the Finish button to complete the installation.
Step 14: Interface is initialized and the software is ready to use.
Congratulations you have successfully installed packet tracer on your
Windows System.
Choosing Devices and Connections
We will begin building our network topology by selecting
devices and the media in which to connect them. Several types of
devices and network connections can be used. For this lab we
will keep it simple by using End Devices, Switches, Hubs, and
Connections.
Single click on each group of devices and connections to display
the various choices. The devices you see may differ slightly.
Various Tools & Functions of CISCO Tracer