Gentlemen, Ladies. I'd wanted to build the project first before putting the announcements anywhere, however for this project I'd like to capture your inputs too.

 

For all those who are involved in Physical to Network layer, your contribution will be a strong builder of this . Im sure you all understand the difficulties of not being able to do the practical parts without physical routers. Though there maybe an argument that one can buy or hack/get free copies etc of such simulators, we are going to try and create an open approach which may help students long term.

 

- Proposal : as per subject

 

- Hosting the Simulator : Our target is get to as many ISPs who are willing to host the Web Simulator ( it maybe difficult for them if they do not host IIS web services, so may have to route outside KE, which will be unfortunate ) and I really hope that ISPs will be will to work with us on this project. This will give many students access without creating the "sole ownership" approach. My wish is to avoid having just one site and outside KE. 

 

- Project time line : 16-24 weeks, after collection of all the data. I could have a skeleton ready for testing.

 

- What help is needed:  If you have access to routers or switches, then it will be a big help to get most of the the IOS commands from a CCNA point of view. The Web Simulator will contain 2 Routers and 1 switch. If you have done your CCNA recently and know what is covered on routing and switching well, then it would be a great help. Things like password recovery registers, stub or default routing, Ripv2 or even OSPF, BGP etc.

 

- Credits : I'd like to be able to give necessary credits to those who contributed on the footer of the main page of the web application.

 

I'm been wanting to do this project for a very long time and would appreciate all your help. I apologise if I've not listed all the details and you may have to be patient with me on the final delivery of the idea as am between many other things. However, I'd like to set a personal deadline of the project as above.

 

All or any suggestions are welcomed, including those from fellow C# ASP.NET developers.

 

Asanteni. :-)