 The first step that we have to do is actually go to the Cisco network academy page do a registration and then we will be able to get the free software and along with the registration you also get a free online course about packet tracer and it is a 10 hour 10 hours long course. But if even if you just see the first or second models they are more than enough for you to go through all this course. Let me take you to the net academy web page and let us see how it looks like and how we can go ahead and get Cisco packet tracer. So yeah once you log on to netacad.com this is basically Cisco's network academy page. So you can go to courses and here you have packet tracer. So when you click on Cisco packet tracer it tells you a lot about what packet tracer is and it actually is used for a lot of Cisco certifications in networks like if you are if you plan to work in network roles. So yeah a lot more details about what Cisco packet tracer is. So now to download Cisco packet tracer you could enroll and download packet tracer just click this and it brings you to this page. So this page actually shows you if you enroll you will get a 10 hours long self paced introductory course to packet tracer. I mean you do not have to do it you can still download the software and keep trying it out but it is a good course to go through and to do that you just hover upon sign up today click on English and you will be brought to this page here you enter your name last name and all the relevant details and then you will be able to log in to my net academy. So what I will do is I will log in to my account and show you how we can download Cisco packet tracer. So once you have logged in to your account so I have already enrolled in the packet tracer introductory course so it is again as I said it is not a mandatory course that you have to do at least for this course the current course that we are going through we will be talking about all the things that you have to do on packet tracer we will be showing you those but for if you have if you are interested and if you want to play a lot on how networks work configure different networks this is a good place to go to. So once you are here in the courses you can go to student resources and under student resources you can download the latest version of packet tracer from here. So I already have packet tracer installed so I will not be downloading it right now. So now let us look at what packet tracer actually looks like. So this is what packet tracer looks like so once you log in this is the screen that you have.