Packet Tracer 5.3.3 Review and free download

byWaleed Khaliqi •4:07 AM

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Having a good environment is very importent for practicing CCNA, some of you might have a great lab full of cisco routers, switches and firewalls, which is the best, but Cisco introduced Packet Tracer a Router Simulator for those who have only one computer at their bedroom's and thinking how to practice without any router or switch?. Packet Tracer is a simulator that provides a learning environment for networking novices to design, configure, and troubleshoot computer networks at a CCNA-level of complexity.

Packet Tracer Version 5.3.3

Packet Tracer version 5.3.3 is a maintenance release that fixes functional and technical issues in the previous versions. It replaces Packet Tracer version 5.3.2. Packet Tracer 5.3.3 supports activities authored in Packet Tracer 4.x, 5.0.x, 5.1.x, 5.2.x, and 5.3.x. Please note that the last two courses of the CCNA Discovery and CCNA Exploration curricula require Packer Tracer version 4.11 at a minimum, CCNA Security requires version 5.2 at a minimum, and the Packet Tracer Skilled Based Assessments require version 5.3.2 at a minimum. the curricula are fully compatible with Packet Tracer 5.3.3.

supported Protocols:

This version of Packet Tracer Supports the following Protocols

LAN: Ethernet (including CSMA/CD*), 802.11 a/b/g/n wireless*, PPPOE
Switching: VLANs, 802.1q, trunking, VTP, DTP, STP*, RSTP*, multilayer switching*, Etherchannel, LACP, PAgP
TCP/IP: HTTP, HTTPS, DHCP, DHCPv6, Telnet, SSH, TFTP, DNS, TCP*, UDP, IPv4*, IPv6*, ICMP, ICMPv6, ARP, IPv6 ND, FTP, SMTP, POP3, VOIP(H.323)
Routing: static, default, RIPv1, RIPv2, EIGRP, single-area OSPF, multi-area OSPF, BGP, inter-VLAN routing, redistribution
Other: ACLs (standard, extended, and named), CDP, NAT (static, dynamic, inside/outside, and overload), NATv6
WAN: HDLC, SLARP, PPP*, and Frame Relay*
Security: IPsec, GRE, ISAKMP, NTP, AAA, RADIUS, TACACS, SNMP, SSH, SYSLOG, CBAC, Zone-based policy firewall, IPS
Qos: Layer 2 Qos, Layer 3 Diffserv Qos, FIFO Hardware queues, Priority Queuing, Custom Queuing, Weighted Fair Queuing, MQC, NBAR

You can download both the Packet Tracer application and tutorial filed in one download package. However, due to the large file size it is faster to download the application by itself, if that is all you need. After Downloading and installing one of the following Type of Packet Tracer 5.3.3 which matches your OS, you will be able to start CCNA Tutorials. according to me you should start Practicing CCNA from Different Modes and Prompts of a Cisco Router IOS.

Choose the download option appropriate for your needs.

Windows:

Title	Document Type and Download link
Packet Tracer v5.3.3 Application + Tutorial This is the complete Packet Tracer Program including tutorials as a single downloadable package for Windows 2000, XP, Vista, and 7	Download (.exe - 81 mb)
Packet Tracer v5.3.3 Application only This option is just the Packet Tracer program and the help files for Windows 2000, XP, Vista, and 7. It does not include the tutorial files. The tutorial files are not necessary to run Packet Tracer.	Download (.exe - 49MB)

Linux

Use Firefox to download the Linux.bin files as Internet Explorer doesn't load them correctly. To install the Linux BIN packages, set the permission to be executable (chmod+x PacketTracer52_*.bin) then execute the binary in the terminal.

Title	Document Type and Download link
Packet Tracer v5.3.3 Application + Tutorial Linux-Ubuntu This is the complete Packet Tracer Program including tutorials as a single downloadable package for Ubunto release 7.10.	Download (BIN - 103 mb)
Packet Tracer v5.3.3 Application only Linux-Ubuntu This option is just the Packet Tracer program and the help files for Ubuntu release 7.10. It does not include the tutorial files. The tutorial files are not necessary to run Packet Tracer.	Download (BIN - 100 MB)
Packet Tracer v5.3.3 Application + Tutorial - Generic Ubuntu This is the complete Packet Tracer program including tutorials for generic Ubuntu.	Download (tar.gz - 104 MB)
Packet Tracer v5.3.3 Application + Tutorial Linux-Fedora This is the complete Packet Tracer program including tutorials as a single downloadable package for Fedora release 7.	Download (BIN - 71MB)
Packet Tracer v5.3.3 Application only Linux-Fedora This option is just the Packet Tracer program and the help files for Fedora release 7. It does not include the tutorial files. The tutorial files are not necessary to run Packet Tracer.	Download (BIN - 68 MB)
Packet Tracer v5.3.3 Application + Tutorial Generic Fedora This is the complete Packet Tracer program including tutorials for generic Fedora.	Download (BIN - 71MB)