Limitations of Packet Tracer

Part of the limitation of Packet Tracer is the available hardware of which you are able to use.

Although we are able to utilize standard switches on each floor (24 fast-ethernet ports, and 2 gigabit ports); This does not work when we require at least 5 'gig ports on the central switch for each of the floors.

To solve this problem we decided to use the empty Packet Tracer devices.

The empty switch allowed us to have up to 8 custom selected ports. In our network we used 5 gig connections (copper) for maximum speeds between the floors and a fiber optic connection to our router.

For the router, we also used a empty Packet Tracer device. We allowed 3 fiber connections; one to the central switch, one to the District network and one extra port is there for any future expansion.