pkampana, thank you for the feed back I will look at both of these.  I have seen a lot of good ref. to the GNS3 and that it is Freeware which is nice as I am paying for my own education on this stuff.Jim

Hi, I too am looking for a good Network Simulator to help me in my preparation for the CCNA certification and was hoping you could share with me what you have found out.Thanks,Jim