1 00:00:00,210 --> 00:00:09,660 In this video, I'm going to show you how to download and install Cisco Packet Tracer on a laptop. 2 00:00:10,080 --> 00:00:15,780 In this example, I've got a Windows 10 laptop which I'm controlling from my Mac that just makes it easier 3 00:00:16,110 --> 00:00:21,060 to do the recordings but I'm going to show you how to download and install Cisco Packet Tracer on this 4 00:00:21,060 --> 00:00:22,200 laptop. 5 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:28,080 Now why would you want to use Cisco Packet Tracer Cisco Packet Tracer is firstly free you can download 6 00:00:28,080 --> 00:00:31,410 it by simply registering for a course on Cisco's website. 7 00:00:31,410 --> 00:00:34,440 You don't have to pay for the course you don't actually have to take the course. 8 00:00:34,440 --> 00:00:39,810 You simply need to register on Cisco's website and then you'll be able to download Cisco Packet Tracer 9 00:00:39,810 --> 00:00:40,540 for free. 10 00:00:40,740 --> 00:00:47,070 So it's free software that you can run on your laptop it allows you to simulate quite complex Cisco 11 00:00:47,080 --> 00:00:52,860 topologies these days. So you can run Cisco routers and switches, you can run servers, you can run PCs 12 00:00:53,190 --> 00:01:00,240 you can create fairly complex topologies. If you're studying for your CCNA as an example Cisco Packet Tracer 13 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:03,340 is enough to pass the CCNA. 14 00:01:03,660 --> 00:01:05,040 It's not perfect. 15 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:12,000 It's a simulator rather than an emulator so it doesn't fully simulate the Cisco IOS but it has enough 16 00:01:12,030 --> 00:01:18,590 in it to give you a good foundation in networking and a good understanding of the topics for the CCNA 17 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:19,740 exam. 18 00:01:19,770 --> 00:01:24,360 So if you're new to networking if you're new to Cisco I'd recommend that you start with Cisco packet 19 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:31,740 tracer and then later on you can look at technologies or applications such as GNS3, Cisco VIRL, and 20 00:01:31,740 --> 00:01:32,990 EVE-NG. 21 00:01:33,150 --> 00:01:33,360 Okay. 22 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:37,540 Without further ado let me show you how to build a packet tracer lab. 23 00:01:38,010 --> 00:01:44,280 So the first thing I'm going to do is simply search for Cisco packet tracer and Google first hit is the 24 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:47,240 Cisco Networking Academy. 25 00:01:47,330 --> 00:01:52,870 Now they've recently changed the login process on the Cisco network Academy Web site. 26 00:01:52,910 --> 00:01:56,840 In the past, you had a dedicated email address for this Web site. 27 00:01:56,900 --> 00:02:03,320 Now it uses your Cisco.com login and we're told that here to login if you have an existing 28 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:09,710 Cisco.com account use that email and password and login if not use your NetAcad email and 29 00:02:09,710 --> 00:02:11,310 password to log in. 30 00:02:11,330 --> 00:02:18,950 Now if you don't have an account scroll down and click enroll to download Packet Tracer. 31 00:02:18,950 --> 00:02:21,560 This course is an introduction to Cisco Packet Tracer. 32 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:24,680 It's a good course but you don't have to go through it. 33 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:26,670 It's 10 hours in length. 34 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:27,400 It is free. 35 00:02:27,410 --> 00:02:32,930 But again you don't have to go through it if you don't want to go to sign up today and select English 36 00:02:32,990 --> 00:02:39,530 as your language and then put in your details such as your first name your last name and your email 37 00:02:39,530 --> 00:02:41,780 address. 38 00:02:41,780 --> 00:02:47,570 This e-mail address has to be valid because they will email you a link which you have to click on to 39 00:02:47,570 --> 00:02:51,090 complete the enrollment process. 40 00:02:51,140 --> 00:02:56,720 So we're told that we need to check our e-mail and click on the Get Started link to access your account. 41 00:02:56,720 --> 00:02:56,930 Okay. 42 00:02:56,940 --> 00:03:03,440 So here's my email from the Cisco Networking Academy I'm going to click activate account you now need 43 00:03:03,440 --> 00:03:05,210 to fill in your details. 44 00:03:05,210 --> 00:03:11,300 Now one of the pieces of advice that I'll give you is if you don't work for a company set the 45 00:03:11,300 --> 00:03:14,300 company name to self as in self-employed. 46 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:22,100 So specify your country, specify your password, decide whether you want to get email notifications or 47 00:03:22,100 --> 00:03:33,050 not put the capture information in and then click register. Now you can sign in with your email address 48 00:03:34,190 --> 00:03:37,800 specify your password and click sign in. 49 00:03:37,820 --> 00:03:40,510 Now we're told that they were excited to have us join them. 50 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:42,840 But we need to fill in some more details. 51 00:03:43,100 --> 00:03:51,140 So as an example, specify your gender, specify your state, specify how many years of experience you have 52 00:03:51,170 --> 00:03:59,730 in I.T. or networking, specify if you have a disability, specify your birth date. So they ask for quite 53 00:03:59,730 --> 00:04:05,670 a bit of information here. Specify your race if you want to I'm going to choose not to disclose that 54 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:14,190 specify whether you served in the military and click Create Account. Okay so now that you've done that 55 00:04:14,220 --> 00:04:17,709 you can launch the course if you want to. 56 00:04:17,740 --> 00:04:19,360 I'm not going to do that. 57 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:23,790 I'm gonna go to resources download Packet Tracer. 58 00:04:23,910 --> 00:04:29,650 Now just an interruption, since I recorded that video Cisco have updated the version of Cisco Packet 59 00:04:29,650 --> 00:04:31,940 Tracer available on their website. 60 00:04:31,960 --> 00:04:41,200 So when you go to resources download Packet Tracer at the time of this recording version 7.3.0 is 61 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:42,740 now available. 62 00:04:42,820 --> 00:04:50,620 This is the recommended version for CCNA 7 which is essentially the new Cisco CCNA 200-301 63 00:04:50,620 --> 00:04:57,610 or one so it's recommended that you use at least this version of Cisco Packet Tracer. 64 00:04:58,210 --> 00:05:05,590 But let me warn you if you see a newer version of Cisco Packet Tracer than 7.3.0 I'd recommend 65 00:05:05,620 --> 00:05:12,040 getting the newest release of Cisco Packet Tracer. In the videos that I've created, I've actually used 66 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:15,240 7.2.2 for some of the packet tracer labs. 67 00:05:15,470 --> 00:05:22,130 But for some of them, I've used 7.3 the recommendation for the current CCNA is to get at 68 00:05:22,130 --> 00:05:24,560 least 7.3.0 69 00:05:24,560 --> 00:05:30,500 But if you see a new row release like 7.3.1 or 7.4 or 7.5 then get 70 00:05:30,590 --> 00:05:36,490 that release get the newest version of Cisco packet tracer and install that on your computer. 71 00:05:36,500 --> 00:05:39,890 The reason for this is newer versions are backward compatible. 72 00:05:39,890 --> 00:05:46,190 So you'll be able to open older versions of packet tracer labs but you won't be able to open newer 73 00:05:46,250 --> 00:05:48,270 versions of packet tracer labs. 74 00:05:48,380 --> 00:05:54,260 So if you download an older version of Cisco packet tracer you won't be able to open a lab that was 75 00:05:54,260 --> 00:05:57,320 created in the newer version of Cisco packet tracer. 76 00:05:57,320 --> 00:06:05,660 So in this example, because I'm using Windows I'm going to download version 7.3.0 0 64 bit and save 77 00:06:05,660 --> 00:06:08,180 that to my local computer. 78 00:06:08,180 --> 00:06:12,240 In this example once again I'm using Windows 10 on that laptop. 79 00:06:12,290 --> 00:06:15,590 It's a 64 bit version of Windows. 80 00:06:15,590 --> 00:06:21,800 So I'm going to download the 64-bit version of packet tracer. If you've got an older version of Windows 81 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:25,120 you may need to download the 32 bit version. 82 00:06:25,310 --> 00:06:31,490 But most people today will be using 64 bit Windows package tracer's also supported on Linux. 83 00:06:31,530 --> 00:06:33,550 It's also supported on Mac OS. 84 00:06:33,670 --> 00:06:39,430 So if you've got a Linux operating system then download the Linux version or the Mac version if you've 85 00:06:39,430 --> 00:06:40,520 got a Mac. 86 00:06:40,580 --> 00:06:48,830 Okay so a packet tracer has now downloaded I'm going to show the following folder so here's my executable 87 00:06:48,830 --> 00:06:53,070 file packet tracer is a simple application to install. 88 00:06:53,070 --> 00:06:55,630 It's like a lot of Windows applications. 89 00:06:55,750 --> 00:07:00,280 I'm going to double click on the executable that was downloaded. 90 00:07:00,280 --> 00:07:04,780 Windows complains that I've downloaded this from the Internet. 91 00:07:04,780 --> 00:07:07,750 I'm going to click install anyway. 92 00:07:07,850 --> 00:07:14,790 I'm going to click yes to allow the app to make changes to my device and now the packet tracer installation 93 00:07:14,790 --> 00:07:16,090 wizard displays. 94 00:07:16,170 --> 00:07:21,600 You need to accept the license agreement so read through the license agreement and click I accept the 95 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:22,100 agreement. 96 00:07:22,110 --> 00:07:24,700 If you accept. I am going to click next. 97 00:07:25,140 --> 00:07:27,760 You can change the default installation folder. 98 00:07:27,810 --> 00:07:31,340 I'm going to use the default and click next. 99 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:33,560 You can change menu options and other options. 100 00:07:33,570 --> 00:07:39,290 But basically I'm just going with the default so I'm going to click next. You can select which shortcuts 101 00:07:39,300 --> 00:07:40,460 you want to create. 102 00:07:40,470 --> 00:07:46,680 I'm going to select both options and click next and then I'm going to click install and as you can see 103 00:07:46,680 --> 00:07:50,320 now Packet Tracer installs very simple installation. 104 00:07:50,490 --> 00:07:56,190 And this is one of the reasons why I suggest you use Cisco packet tracer if you're new to networking because 105 00:07:56,190 --> 00:07:58,570 it's very easy to get up and running 106 00:07:58,620 --> 00:08:06,330 using Cisco Packet Tracer. Other software like GNS3, EVE-NG and Cisco VIRL, are a lot more complicated. 107 00:08:06,330 --> 00:08:12,270 There is a cost associated to using those applications because you need to get Cisco images but here 108 00:08:12,450 --> 00:08:16,660 packet tracer has everything built-in installation has completed. 109 00:08:16,860 --> 00:08:22,600 I'm going to allow it to start and I'm going to click finish and there you go. 110 00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:27,150 Cisco packet tracer has installed and is now starting up. 111 00:08:27,320 --> 00:08:33,760 Now when it boots up you have to enter your username or email address that you've registered with. 112 00:08:33,890 --> 00:08:37,770 On the NetAcad website or on the Cisco Web site. 113 00:08:37,850 --> 00:08:45,680 So I'm gonna log in with my username I'll enter my password and click sign in. 114 00:08:45,780 --> 00:08:51,280 You can start packet tracer up without entering these details but it will be very restricted. 115 00:08:51,420 --> 00:08:56,270 Highly recommended that you just log in with the credentials that you created on the NetAcad web 116 00:08:56,270 --> 00:08:57,780 site and there you go. 117 00:08:57,780 --> 00:09:00,360 I've got Cisco packet tracer installed. 118 00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:03,630 Now I'm gonna show you some tips and tricks in a separate video. 119 00:09:03,630 --> 00:09:10,350 There's certain things in packet tracer that I'd recommend that you do, just in brief however notice 120 00:09:10,350 --> 00:09:13,200 we have network devices such as routers. 121 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:15,100 These are a whole bunch of routers. 122 00:09:15,270 --> 00:09:18,370 I will discuss what routers are in a separate video. 123 00:09:18,430 --> 00:09:19,650 So if you don't know what that is. 124 00:09:19,650 --> 00:09:20,580 Don't worry. 125 00:09:20,730 --> 00:09:24,230 For the moment we've also got a whole bunch of switches. 126 00:09:24,270 --> 00:09:30,000 We've also got hubs, we've got wireless devices and we've got firewalls again. 127 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:33,350 Don't worry if you don't know what these devices are. 128 00:09:33,540 --> 00:09:38,400 We've got different end devices such as PC. laptops and servers. 129 00:09:38,400 --> 00:09:40,620 We've got some components that we can use. 130 00:09:40,620 --> 00:09:45,240 We've got network connections such as a copper straight through cable. 131 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:51,870 Basically in packet tracer we would select a device so as an example I could select this router and 132 00:09:51,870 --> 00:09:55,170 then paste it into my topology area. 133 00:09:55,170 --> 00:10:03,600 I could then select a PC. and click here to add it to my topology and then I could connect those devices 134 00:10:03,600 --> 00:10:07,520 together using Ethernet connections. 135 00:10:07,590 --> 00:10:11,390 Don't worry if you don't know what all of that means. 136 00:10:11,520 --> 00:10:14,320 I'm going to discuss that in more detail later. 137 00:10:14,430 --> 00:10:19,030 For the moment I just wanted you to get Cisco packet tracer installed. 138 00:10:19,050 --> 00:10:24,930 One thing I will point out is that if you do create a topology and you exit packet tracer it will ask 139 00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:26,900 you to save your changes. 140 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:28,550 Make sure that you click a yes. 141 00:10:28,560 --> 00:10:35,310 If you want to save your topology or save any changes that you've made so I'll save this as a test topology 142 00:10:35,310 --> 00:10:37,270 on my desktop and click save. 143 00:10:37,530 --> 00:10:41,630 And as you can see there a packet tracer topology has been created. 144 00:10:41,670 --> 00:10:50,280 If I double click on that packet tracer will be opened and my topology will be restored you'll learn 145 00:10:50,280 --> 00:10:53,820 a lot about packet tracer as you go through the course. 146 00:10:53,940 --> 00:11:01,200 One of my recommendations is if you are new to Cisco packet tracer and you struggle when you log in 147 00:11:01,860 --> 00:11:07,980 to the NetAcad website, they have this introduction to packet tracer course. Highly recommend that 148 00:11:07,980 --> 00:11:09,570 you go through this course. 149 00:11:09,630 --> 00:11:14,910 If you're struggling with packet tracer, if you're not sure how to use the features of packet tracer 150 00:11:15,270 --> 00:11:17,090 then go through this course 151 00:11:17,100 --> 00:11:18,680 It's a very good course. 152 00:11:18,840 --> 00:11:21,370 It doesn't make sense for me to recreate this course. 153 00:11:21,390 --> 00:11:26,130 Cisco created this course really good teaching you the foundations of packet tracer. 154 00:11:26,460 --> 00:11:30,870 So if you struggling to use packet tracer once again go through this introduction to packet tracer 155 00:11:30,870 --> 00:11:36,550 course. Okay so hopefully at this point you've got packet tracer downloaded and installed. 156 00:11:36,650 --> 00:11:38,710 Please do that as soon as you can. 157 00:11:38,720 --> 00:11:44,270 Because in the course I'm going to be using packet tracer to demonstrate a whole bunch of stuff and 158 00:11:44,270 --> 00:11:47,900 you will learn a lot more by doing stuff yourself. 159 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:49,970 So please download it and install it.