What's New
Users of Packet Tracer 3.2, 4.0, and 4.01 will note a variety of new features in Packet Tracer 4.11.
Protocol Improvements
Extendable Architecture
Packet Tracer is designed in a modular fashion for future expansion and the Packet Tracer team is interested in learning what new features would be most useful to the community.
GUI Improvements
Packet Tracer 4.11 retains the logical topology as the primary workspace but adds additional physical representations of devices, realtime and simulation modes, and a wide variety of views and windows. The GUI supports multiple languages so the application may be locally translated. New features included in Packet Tracer 4.11 are the following: accessibility, copy and paste, undo, clustering devices, drawing palette, zooming, font adjustments, support for multiple device windows open at once, and improved window management.
Representation and Visualization Tools
An Event List, a form of global network sniffer, is included in Packet Tracer 4.11. This allows the display of the majority of simulated PDUs as events. For detailed protocol analysis, these events may be played in a continuous animation mode, forward, backward or in a stepped through process. Powerful OSI Layer view and PDU view, and more sophisticated custom PDUs, are also supported.
Annotation and Authoring Capabilities
Packet Tracer 4.11 improves upon the Activity Wizard of versions 3.2 and 4.0. It also includes templates, or "design patterns," for four different types of problem-solving activities: concept builders (network modeling problems), skill builders (pre-lab and post-lab implementation and practice activities), design problems, and troubleshooting problems.