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 Advanced Packet Tracer
Session Agenda
ƒ Configure a WAN Frame Relay Cloud
ƒ Using Clusters
ƒ Author Activities
ƒ Modify an Activity File
Working with Instructions
Assessment Timing and Feedback

ƒ Troubleshooting Activities
Correcting Assessment Items
Changing Answer Network Items

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 Working with
WAN Devices

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 WAN Device
Configurable 10-Port Chassis
ƒ Multiprotocol support
Frame Relay
DSL
Cable
Four Module Types
ƒ RJ-11 PT-CLOUD-NM-1AM
ƒ Ethernet PT-CLOUD-NM-1CE
ƒ Coax PT-CLOUD-NM-1CX
ƒ Serial PT-CLOUD-NM-1S

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 WAN Device

Activity Initial.pkt

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 The Art of
Clustering

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 Clusters
Uses for Clusters
Cluster0
ƒ Allows simplification of topology
ƒ Cluster one device or multiple devices
ƒ Hide devices in a topology

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Router3 Router3 Router3

1841
Router1 Cluster0 Cluster0
Cloud-PR-Empty Cloud-PR-Empty
Cloud0 Cloud0

1841 1841 1841

Router2 Router1 Router2

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 Clusters
Using Clusters in Activity Wizard
ƒ Prevent students from using the Kobayashi Maru*
solution
ƒ Optional locks
Create cluster—locks user from creating clusters
Change cluster—locks user from adding or removing devices
and deleting a cluster
Enter cluster—locks user from opening the cluster

*Star Trek—To Change the Test Parameters in Order to Succeed

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 Clusters

Cluster0

Activity Clusterinitial.pkt

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 Authoring
PT Activities

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 Authoring PT

ƒ This is as simple as taking an old lab and adapting

it for PT
ƒ Three options
PT exercise - use the old lab as the instructions, create a
template for the students to start from and save the completed
lab as a pkt file
PT challenge - use the old lab as the instructions and have the
student create the lab from scratch and save as a pkt file
PT activity - convert the lab into a full activity

ƒ Although the last option requires the most prep, it is the

easiest to grade

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 Standard ACL Quiss #0
Authoring PT LAB B
E0
Option 1 Using a Starting SI
S0
Net (DCE)
Packet File
ƒ Allows students to concentrate LAB A
S0
(DCE)
SI
on task at hand E0
S0 LAB C
(DCE)
E0

Router Name—LAB A Router Name—LAB B Router Name—LAB C

Router Type—2514 Router Type—2503 Router Type—2503
E0 = 205.7.5.1 E0 = 219.17.100.1 E0 = 223.8.151.1
S0 = 201.100.11.1 S0 = 199.6.13.1 S0 = 204.204.7.1
SI = 204.204.7.2 SI = 201.100.11.2 SI = 199.6.13.2
SM = 255.255.255.0 SM = 255.255.255.0 SM = 255.255.255.0

In the Above Network Configure a Standard Access

Control List that:
1. Allows All of Network 219.17.100.0 Access to 205.7.5.0
2. Deny All Hosts in the Internet Access to 205.7.5.0
Remember:
By Default the Statement “Deny 0.0.0.0.255.255.255.255”
Is Added to the End of an ACL.
If In/Out Is not Applied to the Access-Group
Statement the Default Is Out.
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 Standard ACL Quiss #0
Authoring PT LAB B
E0
Option 2 PT challenge SI
S0
Net (DCE)

ƒ Use the old lab as the instructions S0

and have the student create the LAB A (DCE)
SI
lab from scratch and save as a pkt E0
S0 LAB C
(DCE)
file E0

Router Name—LAB A Router Name—LAB B Router Name—LAB C

Router Type—2514 Router Type—2503 Router Type—2503
E0 = 205.7.5.1 E0 = 219.17.100.1 E0 = 223.8.151.1
S0 = 201.100.11.1 S0 = 199.6.13.1 S0 = 204.204.7.1
SI = 204.204.7.2 SI = 201.100.11.2 SI = 199.6.13.2
SM = 255.255.255.0 SM = 255.255.255.0 SM = 255.255.255.0

In the Above Network Configure a Standard Access

Control List that:
1. Allows All of Network 219.17.100.0 Access to 205.7.5.0
2. Deny All Hosts in the Internet Access to 205.7.5.0
Remember:
By Default the Statement “Deny 0.0.0.0.255.255.255.255”
Is Added to the End of an ACL.
If In/Out Is not Applied to the Access-Group
Statement the Default Is Out.
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 Standard ACL Quiss #0
Authoring PT LAB B
E0
Option 3 Create an Activity SI
S0
Net (DCE)

ƒ Finish the lab in Packet Tracer

to create the answer network LAB A
S0
(DCE)
SI
E0
S0 LAB C
(DCE)
E0

Router Name—LAB A Router Name—LAB B Router Name—LAB C

Router Type—2514 Router Type—2503 Router Type—2503
E0 = 205.7.5.1 E0 = 219.17.100.1 E0 = 223.8.151.1
S0 = 201.100.11.1 S0 = 199.6.13.1 S0 = 204.204.7.1
SI = 204.204.7.2 SI = 201.100.11.2 SI = 199.6.13.2
SM = 255.255.255.0 SM = 255.255.255.0 SM = 255.255.255.0

In the Above Network Configure a Standard Access

Control List that:
1. Allows All of Network 219.17.100.0 Access to 205.7.5.0
2. Deny All Hosts in the Internet Access to 205.7.5.0
Remember:
By Default the Statement “Deny 0.0.0.0.255.255.255.255”
Is Added to the End of an ACL.
If In/Out Is not Applied to the Access-Group
Statement the Default Is Out.
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 Authoring PT
Option 3 Create an Activity
ƒ Start with the completed lab, select File/Activity Wizard
ƒ PT will prompt you to use this network as the answer network

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 Authoring PT
Option 3 Create an Activity
ƒ Open Activity Wizard

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 Authoring PT
Option 3 Create an Activity
ƒ Select Instructions

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 Authoring PT
Option 3 Create an Activity
Instructions
ƒ Paste HTML into
the Edit field

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 Authoring PT
Option 3 Create an Activity
Answer Network
ƒ Check assessment
items for ACL
and interface
access-group
commands

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 Authoring PT
Option 3 Create an Activity
Initial Network
ƒ Copy from the
Answer Network
ƒ Remove the ACL
ƒ Remove the
access-group
command from
the interface
ƒ At this point, you
can lock down
the Items

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 Authoring PT
Option 3 Create an Activity
Password
ƒ This screen
allows you to
create a password
needed to enter
the Activity Wizard

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 Authoring PT
Option 3 Create an Activity
ƒ Test activity
and save

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 Working with
Activity Instructions

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 Activity Instructions
ƒ Instructions in Packet Tracer
Activity Wizard are built in
simple HTML format
ƒ Most HTML editors write in
HTML 4 or XML
ƒ Find a simple HTML editor
like Easy HTML
ƒ You will still have to remove
code not recognized by PT

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 Activity Instructions
Partial List of Accepted HTML Commands

<h1>...</h1> <h5>...</h5> Heading levels

<p>...</p Paragraph
<center>...</center> Center
<ul>...</ul> Unordered List
<ol>...</ol> Ordered List
<li>...</li> <dl>...</dl> <dt>...</dt> <dd>...</dd>
<pre>...</pre> <table>...</table>

A full list of usable commands is included in the BRK-137T_Advanced_Use_of_PT Folder

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 Activity Instructions

ƒ Commands that are questionable

<a href=></a> anchor tags can be used but the referenced file
needs to be in the Packet Tracer folder

ƒ Commands that don’t work

<img> Image tags don’t work
<meta> metatags don’t work

Need an Image?
Try http://www.text-image.com/convert/

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 Assessment
Timing and
Feedback

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 Timing
Answer Network Tab

Elapsed, Countdown Maximum 23:59:59

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 Feedback
Answer Network Tab

Configurable Text
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 Activity 3

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 Activity 3
Creating and Modifying an Activity

Activity 3

Framefinal.pkt

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 Troubleshooting Activities
Changing Answer Networks
Correcting Assessments

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 Activity 4
Troubleshooting Assessment Items
Common Errors
ƒ Answer network is incorrect
ƒ Assessment items are not in lab directions
ƒ Directions are wrong

Activity FigaWAN_AENeuman.pka

The Best Practice is to Test

Each Activity Before You Save
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 Q and A

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