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Hello folks! You might be surprised that I suddenly decided to make a post in this blog. This is because I've worked with a packet tracer lab just recently as part of my CCENT class. Yes I had a CCENT class. But there's only one student. He was an aspiring network engineer, planning a career shift and I have a fair share of experience and knowledge gained from the past three years of working in this field. So I thought why not? I can share what I know and was hopeful that I could inspire another to learn the world of networking. After all I had such a fun ride, networking is hard, but fun!  So for the final assessment I had to let him see the big picture. What is Routing really? What is Switching? What is the significance of IP? What is branch and enterprise networking?  I taught him the basic essentials. I showed him my own technique in IP subnetting. I kept on telling him to see the pattern in everything because that's how I got it. I explained to him where Routi...