A suggestion for Cisco Packet Tracer Improvements and Developements

[nefalim_a]

Hello everyone i am using packet tracer for almost 5 years and training when it is possible with so limited CLI command promt available

I was wondering why so many years CISCO has not developed Packet Tracer with EVERY CISCO FEATURE AND PRODUCT AVAILABLE and with all the CLI commands available with a trade of a yearly 1000$ dollar subscription ????

Now everyone has to search online ....find for free images free solutions spend hours and hours to setup a VM then updated it when neccesary....to work for free or for less money and the story goes and goes on....

I think it was super easy for cisco to publish a new version of packet tracer purchasable once for a lifetime for example 1500$ dollars or something like subscription 1000$ a year and it should include EVERYTHING so easy

CISCO FMC FTD ASA ISE all CLI commands 

Why it is so hard for CISCO to make such a smart and easy move to help engineers get better save them valuable time for doing everything in smaller times and more productive than searching for countless hours online for free stuff and whatever they find for free over and over again every 2-3 months???

Cannot really understand in 2022 why is this happening

[MHM Cisco World]

check CML it give more advance than PKT and GNS3

[Martin L]

First of all, Packet Tracer is not Cisco, it is developed by Cisco Net Academy and was originally developed and shared only for Net Academy students and alumni. The goal is to help learning networking, technologies, and CLI commands.  PT is excellent tool to learn and practice networking fundamentals and commands for CCNA exam.  PT is just a software Simulator; it does not run on real IOS or virtual IOS; It is close to IOS but It does not really behave like real IOS would (some simply features do). 

Why Cisco has not developed Packet Tracer with all commands and features ? Very expensive and cumbersome, not to mention licensing and crypto issues and related legal stuff !  It is probably not possible or feasible to replicate every feature and behavior of IOS, XE, XR, NX family in one software simulator package. Also, real IOS runs on (or in) hardware (ASICs) and it is pretty dependent to those various real chips and transistors (motherboards).  Just look at one image release; it comes with some license or not, basic lan or advanced package and/or security package, aka k9.  Then, you have improvements and fixes made for the exact same release.  https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/resources/ios_nx_os_reference_guide

There are tools to help engineers to simulate IOS behavior like virtual IOS that runs in CML, Eve-ng (might be illegal), or GNS3 emulator that runs on real IOS (most of them old version except one 15.x from 7200s routers).  Here, we have issues of layer 1 which does not exists in virtual environment; Still, things are working surprisingly well. 

You can "test-drive" some of the latest Cisco products like Cisco Modeling lab -virtual simulator and others for free from DevNet Sandbox;  see https://devnetsandbox.cisco.com/RM/Topology or https://developer.cisco.com/modeling-labs/

Regards, ML
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