Part 2 book “Packet tracer network simulator” has contents: Navigating and modifying the physical workspace, confiuring routing with the CLI, border gateway protocol, IPv6 on packet tracer, setting up a wireless network, confiuring VLANs and trunks, and other contents. | Navigating and Modifying the Physical Workspace A simulator, as the name says, only logically simulates the required environment. However, Packet Tracer is much more than that. It simulates devices physically too. You've read that a copper Ethernet cable has a range of 100 meters, but have you bothered to try using it? Getting a 100 meter wire and struggling with it is not at all required as we will do just that in this chapter. Do you find the device icons boring? How about spicing things up with your own icons and background images? We will show you all this and more in this chapter. Creating cities, offices, and wiring closets So far, we've used the logical workspace to create topologies. The physical workspace makes your logical topology more realistic by giving it a physical dimension. The physical workspace has four environments: Intercity, City, Building, and Wiring closet. • Intercity: This is the largest environment consisting of cities. Cities, buildings, and wiring closets can be created in this layer using the controls on the toolbar. • Cities: This layer contains buildings and wiring closets. The default city is named Home City. Cities can be dragged and placed anywhere on the intercity map. Navigating and Modifying the Physical Workspace • Buildings: This layer contains wiring closets. The default building is named Corporate Office. • Wiring closet: This is the final layer that contains devices placed in the logical topology. Its default name is Main Wiring Closet and it doesn't have any specified area. Moving devices physically All devices used in the logical workspace are placed in Main Wiring Closet; we'll learn how to move them. 1. Create a topology in the logical workspace with two PCs. Replace their default modules with PT-HOST-NM-1FGE (remember to switch off both the PCs before doing this) because Ethernet has distance restrictions (we'll learn more about this in the following section). Connect both of them with a .
