Project 1 : PFSense Routing
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Well If you have enough free time you can try taking advantage of one week trial of CBT Nuggets and try some of their virtual labs. If I remember correctly some of the instructors is using Cisco Packet Tracer when teaching and its free. Another nice tool is to use GNS3 (https://www.gns3.com/). I like using both the Cisco Packet Tracer and GNS3.
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@black3dynamite said in Project 1 : PFSense Routing:
Well If you have enough free time you can try taking advantage of one week trial of CBT Nuggets and try some of their virtual labs. If I remember correctly some of the instructors is using Cisco Packet Tracer when teaching and its free. Another nice tool is to use GNS3 (https://www.gns3.com/). I like using both the Cisco Packet Tracer and GNS3.
I had a look at Cisco Packet Tracer and it looks like a nice tool for simulations.
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@WrCombs For networking basics, I would also recommend using PacketTracer. You will need to have some basic Cisco routing and switching cli knowledge (guides and resources are available all over the web). Having the ability, to actually see packets travel to your lab network is super valuable when you are starting and will help you really understand routing. You can work with static routes or dynamic routing protocols like OSPF, rip v2, etc. inside packet tracer.
Here is a work in progress lab, using L3 switches as core internal routers and several vlans. Its simulating a network transitioning from a big flat 10.10.0.0/20 to several vlans
Computer objects have cmd terminals, webbrowsers and other stuff so you can troubleshoot network stuff via ping, tracert, etc.
I really like it and use it quite a lot when I am troubleshooting network issues that I need to have a diagram and see how the packets can flow within the network.
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@Romo said in Project 1 : PFSense Routing:
Here is a work in progress lab, using L3 switches as core internal routers and several vlans. Its simulating a network transitioning from a big flat 10.10.0.0/20 to several vlans
@Romo N2048-Stack, that's a stack of Dell switches.
I'm guessing you can't simulate that, only Cisco gear right?
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@Pete-S only Cisco gear that label along with the sonic wall was more as documentation for myself.
