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Interactive IT Simulation & Practice Labs

CONFIG by Network Kings

Configure real-feeling routers, switches and firewalls on NK-OS, watch every packet on the wire, and prove it with live task checks. CCNA, CCNP, Juniper, Fortinet and Palo Alto tracks — nothing to install.

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Anyone can click through a GUI. Engineers who own the CLI get hired.

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A network engineer configuring a rack-mounted switch beside a laptop.
From the patch cable to the command line.

At the console

Think through the network. Then make it work.

Build a branch network, configure its devices and follow the traffic. Use the console and packet capture together to understand why a connection works, or why it fails.

  • Configure the devices

    Work with interfaces, VLANs, routes and firewall policies.

  • Inspect the packets

    Read the headers and prove what happens on the wire.

Build your own lab

More than labs: practise like you work

Design a network, plan your path, work real tickets and get a resume that matches the jobs.

INTERNET 8.8.8.8FW1R1SW1SW2PC1PC2PC3PC4

Design your own lab

Drag routers, firewalls and switches onto a canvas, cable them and watch traffic flow through the internet cloud.

Build a lab
  1. 1CCNA
  2. 2ENCOR
  3. 3ENARSI
  4. 4SPCOR
  5. 5Automation
Goal: Network Engineer, 9 months0%

A roadmap built for you

Tell us your goal and see the tracks, in order, that get you to the role.

Plan my roadmap
INC0010432 · P2New

Branch users cannot reach the internet

SLA28 min left
  • show ip route on R1
  • Found: missing NAT overload
  • ip nat inside source list 1 interface Gi0/1 overload
+120 XP

Work real NOC tickets

Take a ticket, find the root cause on the devices, fix it before the SLA runs out and earn XP.

Take a ticket
Keywords from the job post
OSPFBGPVLANNATFortiGatePython

A resume that gets shortlisted

Upload your resume, see its ATS score and add the keywords that jobs ask for.

Check my resume

Choose your track

Every module has reading, console labs, a quiz and scenario questions.

Labs

Hands-on network labs in your browser

Every lab runs in your browser — no installs, no GNS3, no packet tracer. Type IOS commands, watch the wire, get checked.

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Packet Studio

See inside every packet

A Wireshark-style capture of real frames: Ethernet, ARP, IPv4, ICMP, TCP, UDP, DNS, DHCP and OSPF. Click any field to see its bits, its bytes and what it does.

Open Packet Studio
110.0.12.1224.0.0.5OSPFHello Packet
2192.168.10.108.8.8.8DNSStandard query A nwkings.com
3192.168.10.10203.0.113.80TCP50122 → 80 [SYN] Seq=0
4203.0.113.80192.168.10.10TCP80 → 50122 [SYN, ACK] Seq=0 Ack=1
510.0.12.14.4.4.4ICMPEcho (ping) request ttl=255
64.4.4.410.0.12.1ICMPEcho (ping) reply ttl=253

Checksums, lengths and flags are computed exactly like on a real wire.

How a lab works

  1. Configure

    Type IOS-style commands on NK-OS routers. ? help, Tab completion and short forms work.

  2. Watch the wire

    Links turn green when OSPF goes FULL. Capture any link and read the packets.

  3. Get checked

    Tasks tick themselves when the network really works, not when you type a keyword.

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