Packet Tracer is a good program available from Cisco. I'm not sure if the download is available to the public though. You might have to be enrolled in a CCNA course to get it.
I took a Network Infrastructure class to finish my degree that was basically a CCNA prep course. They used this as for our labs and it was pretty decent. It has its quirks, but it would let you setup some pretty advanced networks limited only by the hardware types it included.
For learning Cisco equipment, it does what its meant to do.
i have used a few of them over the time of my ccna classes, however, all of them have quirks
some didnt like access lists, some didnt have newer hardware (but had alot of options) i dont think i could do ISDN or any type of frame relay if i was not mistaken. this was close to 2 years ago tho, so i had forgoten
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