<p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: #0000ff; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One way to have students work with routers/switches online is to use a lab program such as LabSim. &nbsp;Basically they are able to walk through the commands that will be used in setting those devices up. &nbsp;LabSim does a great job of working to show how to identify and work with various hardware components too.</span></p> <p><strong style="font-weight: normal;"><strong style="font-weight: normal;">&nbsp;</strong></strong></p> <p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: #0000ff; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In more advanced networking courses I have used the Cisco online live labs. &nbsp;Those are much more involved than the LabSims and the student is essentially working on live networking equipment.</span></p> <p><strong id="docs-internal-guid-bceae3a6-d6ea-937c-a104-2e53a1c5f699" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: #0000ff; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">David</span></strong></p>