I don't have a Cisco academy login, so the Cisco Packet Simulator is out as far as I know. So I read about GNS3. I've been pounding on it for nearly 2 days and can't get it to let me setup a simple switch to connect to anything.
I'm trying to setup a test area to simulate what I think I should do at work to setup some VLANs across a few switches (no routers) to segregate some dept traffic from each other.
And we don't actually have any Cisco switches anyway, but they do allow VLAN setup.
Any suggestions?