Not Feeling the Love from Packet Tracer 5.3.3.0019

So I was doing some Practice Labs from Todd Lammle's CCENT book ISBN: 978-0-470-24702-0 here on my pc.
I am a-little frustrated that I am unable to do the Lab on Chapter 9 Page 491 of my Book. It appears the HTTP SECURE-SERVER command is not listed.

I read somewhere that there is a 6.0 Beta Version of packet tracer. Is anyone running into the same "command Issues" with Packet Tracer 6.0 version as I am with the 5.3.3 Version ?

Please advise.

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Comments

jdancer

You have to three other options:

1) Use GNS3. It actually runs IOS itself as an emulator.
2) Rent time for actual equipment.
3) Buy equipment.

I'm sure there are other options. But for me, GNS3 did the trick.

YFZblu

PT does a pretty good job, but in my experience it will give you trouble when you get into the encrypted message/tunnel arena. As stated above you can move on to GNS3, but initiating GNS3 comes with its own growing pains.

Because it's such a small part of the program I simply learned the syntax for the 'secure' commands in IOS and didn't bother with forcing the issue by moving to GNS3. Hope this helps

MosGuy

With packet tracer; not all switches/routers support the security set i.e ssh, https. Off the top of my head you could try: 3560 switch or 1841 router. They have ssh, so may also have https. The PT server has all the typical services including https. The alternative would be to go through a server instead.

I do have version 5.3.3 and PT 6.0.1 on my windows laptop. I'll compare both versions once I finish work.

UPDATE: I double checked both versions, none of the switches/routers support secure http. The only option is using the server.

Corndork2

Personally, I started with Packet Tracer when I was doing ICND1, then I moved to real hardware. Once I got a little more skilled with *nix I spun up a dynamips server and moved to GNS3.

I did have some strange issues with Packet Tracer in a few of the labs. It seems to come with the territory. I would highly reccommend moving to GNS3 (there are multiple how to sites, videos, and CBT nuggets even if you need) or grab an 1841 on ebay for less than 100.00

JeanM

GNS or get some cheap physical hardware.

mgmguy1

Corndork2 wrote: »

Personally, I started with Packet Tracer when I was doing ICND1, then I moved to real hardware. Once I got a little more skilled with *nix I spun up a dynamips server and moved to GNS3.

I did have some strange issues with Packet Tracer in a few of the labs. It seems to come with the territory. I would highly reccommend moving to GNS3 (there are multiple how to sites, videos, and CBT nuggets even if you need) or grab an 1841 on ebay for less than 100.00

I have used GNS 3 before but there were alot of issues with it on my old pc. I have a new PC now and I will downlaod GNS3 and see how it goes.