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Packet Tracer Notes

  • Don't use cls in a switch
  • Hold control to deploy multiple
  • Make sure to power on a switch
  • Enter simulation mode: click "simulation" in bottom right
  • Simulation filters: click "show all/none", then "Edit Filters"
  • Setting default gateway in PC: Config -> Global -> Gateway/DNS IPv4
  • Setting IP and subnet for an interface of a multilayer switch: Config -> Interface/FastEthernet0/X -> IP Configuration
  • Switch & router settings (click save NVRAM to avoid depression!!)
  • For sniffers, you might have to connect a hub/switch using crossover cable, whereas it doesn't seem to matter for routers......
  • There's a button to send ping requests in the GUI!!!! It's the little one in the toolbar that looks like an envelope
  • Connecting a router involved setting a "network ip" for each interface, wether it was going to a switch, or end device
  • Sometimes pings will work first in a simulation mode (This program is awful)
  • If one router is using static, then you have to add static routes to the other devices using RIP