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Packet Tracer is a network design, simulation and modeling tool that allows users to build networks from scratch, work on sample labs, test new designs, and examine packet flow. It has a user interface with network devices, components, and connections that can be added and wired. Once a network is created, devices must be configured. The simulation mode allows verifying connectivity and studying how data traverses the network. By default, Packet Tracer runs in real-time mode showing a clock. PDUs can be created to simulate traffic and visualize movement between IPv4 and IPv6 devices. The contents of PDUs can be viewed using the OSI model showing addresses and headers at each layer.

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Packet Tracer is a network design, simulation and modeling tool that allows users to build networks from scratch, work on sample labs, test new designs, and examine packet flow. It has a user interface with network devices, components, and connections that can be added and wired. Once a network is created, devices must be configured. The simulation mode allows verifying connectivity and studying how data traverses the network. By default, Packet Tracer runs in real-time mode showing a clock. PDUs can be created to simulate traffic and visualize movement between IPv4 and IPv6 devices. The contents of PDUs can be viewed using the OSI model showing addresses and headers at each layer.

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COMPUTER NETWORKS-I MOOC COURSE

Packet tracer is an existing network design, simulation and modeling and the visualization tool that
allows you to develop your skill set in networking, cyber security and the internet of things(IoT),

It provides following features:

Build network from scratch, work on pre-built sample labs, test new network designs, and examine
data/packet flowing through a network.

USER INTERFACE:

It has network devices, end devices, components , connections.

It adds devices and connect them using wired cables or wires

DEVICE CONFIGURATION:

Once the network has been created, it must be configured of the devices and components.

SIMULATION MODE:

This mode allows us to verify device connectivity and to study how the various types of data traverses
your network.

Default mode of packet tracer is realtime mode. In realtime mode time is continuously running as
indicated by the clock in the lower right corner

PDU(Protocol Data Unit):

 PDU is a protocol data unit. It is a message type that is going to be transferring between

Network devices.

 In simulation mode we can create PDU to have traffic control, and we can visualize the traffic
movement (IPv4,IPv6).
 Creating messages that move from source to the destination in the networking devices.
 Default mode of the packet tracer is realtime mode.

Viewing the contents of PDU:

 The contents of the PDU can be viewed in OSI model(we can view it as seven layers of OSI
model), we can see the summary of the addresses and contents of the headers at each layer.
 In this we have source IP address and the destination IP address
 Inlayer and out layers as source and the destination respectively.

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