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Comingfrom an ASA back ground I am trying to learn more about troubleshooting in the PA. From what I learned so far there is no command in the PA that tests the full path of communication similar to packet-capture in the ASA. When in CLI I see there is a test command that breaks out different components of the communication path. I can test routing & policies which is great. Does anyone have a method they use to test different components of the full communication path? Are there certain things to test in an order? We are going to turn on all next gen features & I want to be prepared for request to troubleshoot why a host cannot access resources outside their own zone & there could be a lot of potential reasons not just layer 3 & 4. Thanks.

The only thing you need is logs. Enter filters for the session in question and look for any blocked events. Either in each log file seperately (traffic, threat, URL..) or in unified logs. Especially with threat logs keep in mind that source/destination of an event doesn't necesarilly match the direction of session.

So will logs show every & any specific reason why a session between 2 hosts cannot be successfully connected? From a firewall perspective of coarse. For instance if someone on the internet can't get to my web server because I don' I have NAT set up at all or it is not set up correctly.

You would see the traffic hit the Public IP address and then see it either 'age-out' or hit the interzone-default rule. Looking at the associated session ID will show you that it didn't complete a NAT process.

There is nothing directly compariable to Packet Tracer on the Palo Alto. You'll kind of have to force that out of your mind and just focus on how to actually troubleshoot Palo Alto equipment. The logs will give you everything you need to know, and the test commands will allow you to test the policies and ensure that it'll actually hit a NAT policy, or a Security policy, or any of the like as you put something into production.

The 'test' commands should just be worked out as part of you deployment process. I have this new website/service and I've completed the NAT and Security rules; does the 'test' statements show that the traffic will match the expected NAT rule, does it show you will match the expected Security rule? There isn't anything as 'full-featured' as packet tracer.

to emnoc: people are not locked to cisco approach, just want to use good inventions if its possible. Imagine i have remote site, like datacenter , and no users can help me to generate traffic but i want to test web filters and app filters under policy , i have report that access to box.com and dropbox are passing trough although i see web filter block is applied for file sharing and storage category. How can i test at this situation? Where i'd get "active" traffic in datacenter with no users there?

Actually fortios has added a packet tracer like function to fortios "diag firewall iprope lookup" it can do protocol and port traffic flows and show you want policy is matched. you do not need active traffic per-se

The Fortinet Security Fabric brings together the concepts of convergence and consolidation to provide comprehensive cybersecurity protection for all users, devices, and applications and across all network edges.

That could just be the subnets you need to make but not necessarily need to add on the simulator. Like @MHM Cisco World said as long as you have 1 or 2 devices per subnet to test reachability it should be fine. (but also clarify with the instructor if you can) If it says you need 30 hosts in this subnet and 12 hosts in another, instead of putting 42 hosts in packet tracer you would just need to create the networks that can support that many devices and the couple of devices you add would just have IPs from that subnet with a default gateway and such.

which version of Packet Tracer are you using ? If you use the scroll bars at the bottom and right, the UI is rather large, and (at least in version 8.1.1) I can fit hundreds of devices. Can you post a screenshot showing the small UI you have ?

Packet tracer is fairly limited. It is designed to let someone practice for the CCNA exams. It doesn't include all the IOS features, only a subset of commands that are useful for CCNA-level exercises.

There is a known issue between packet tracer 7.1 and Ubuntu 16.04 which blocks packet tracer from starting. Packet tracer needs a library libicui18n.so.52 which has been updated with libicui18n.so.55 in Ubuntu 16.04. To solve this issue, we have to download and install the older version of this library. Older version of this library is available in a Debian package at :-

Open terminal type packettracer, make sure you use two t's, packettracer not packetracer, not case sensitive, do not need to change directory, I am running version 7.1.1 on ubuntu 14.04, no need to type packettracer7 or packettracer7.1.1 just packettracer.

Dear all

I would like to test my network with continuous ping in packet tracer. When I use for example: ping 192.168.4.100 -t Command line says Invalid command Im trying to ping from Laptop command line in packet tracer. Are there other ways to do that?

thank you for help. I have another homework with other problem I have three routers and I can not ping the third router however I configured ipv6 static routing. please help me thank you, frank.

by the way how can link or post my packet tracer file?

What are you routing to and from, on each switch? When I did this last (which was more than 12 years ago), it was just a case of configuring the default gateway for the first router, and static routing for the second one, so that specific routes would go down the second one, everything else down the first. Exactly how you configure that will depend on the router and the operating system running on your other devices.

I want to start practicing using Aruba gear like you use when using packet tracer from Cisco. Is there a way to do this using gns3 or another application? I think I have to download a file and insert into GNS3 but don't know how to do this. Any suggestions.

Will Check Point release a management plugin that offers a similar functionality to Cisco's ASDM packet tracer anytime soon? I'm thinking about coding it on my own for quite some time. Shall I start or wait for Check Point?

I think you might see something similar in R80.20. Checkpoint will implement the rule assistance utiliy which can be used to determine if there is a rule or not for certain traffic and it helps you to place the rules in the correct location.

In R80.10 gateways there is another utility (not documented) that doesn't inject packets but it does go through the policy files and database and tells you which rules the traffic will match but it doesn't inject the packets.

-> It's an undocumented command that's very helpful. It is nice that no "fwaccel off" is necessary. With this command you can see even more details than "fw monitor" The firewall worker and the CPU core are also displayed here. For more informtions: "fw ctl zdebug" Helpful Command Combinations

Yes, please do it. I came from a Cisco ASDM environment and this is definitely a feature that I miss. In fact, I have been asking about it for a few years now with several of the SE's that have been assigned to my account. This would be especially useful with layered rules that contain both tradition policies as well as blade specific (i.e. app/url/Antibot) policies to be able to test possible policy updates and get a graphical depiction of success or failure before they are actually installed.

Sorry to dig into such an old thread, but since no clarification regarding an Check Point implementation was mentioned (I guess it is not planned due to packet mode search/pinj/fw monitor/fw vtl debug) - did you start with an own implementation? Or would you think it makes sense to open a thread where we ask the whole community if they would be interested in such a solution? Maybe Check Point is willing to implement it in a future release if enough people show their interest.

Update 06/04/2024 : A new Cisco Packet Tracer 8.2.2 version has been released for download on Netacad website. This is a bugfix release fixing several bugs on accessibility, usability, and security of Packet Tracer 8.2. Cisco Packet Tracer 8.2 introduced a new command as well as bug fixing regarding incompatible DLLs that caused Packet Tracer crashes.

Cisco Packet Tracer 8.2 is created by Cisco SystemsTM and is provided for free to everyone. Self learners are able to download Cisco Packet Tracer after registering on Cisco Netacad website. This is a major change in Cisco delivery policy for Packet Tracer as previous versions were only available for Netacad students and instructors.

Cisco Packet Tracer 8.2.2 can be downloaded for FREE from official Cisco Netacad website. Log in to Cisco Netacad.com learning website and select Resources > Packet Tracer in the menu to access the download page. The software is provided with several tutorial files allowing academy students to discover the software features.

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