Dynamips on a MacBook Pro
10 January, 2008 by Greg Ferro Print Posting
I am doing some proof of concept for an MPLS data centre and did something I have not normally done. I used my MacBook Pro to run Dynamips / Dynagen. I am very pleased with 9 3640 routers running Enterprise Plus, and 2 2611 Routers with IP and running less than 60% CPU across both cores
This means that I have still have enough resources to run quite few other programs including Parallels (although it does run a little slow). I have an older MacBook Pro, but upgraded to to 4 GB RAM. I found that the 2 x 2GB RAM modules run faster than 1 x 2Gb (as you might expect) but its a shame that only 3GB can be used or I could have quite a few more.
I won’t repeat what other people have said about Dynamips, but running it on OS X Leopard is very fine indeed.
Hi there,
Although I find it helpful, I have to mention that I am new to the whole MAC world. I don’t know anywathing about OSX to be honest but really need to get dyngen/dynamips working.
I installed on Tiger and it worked like a charm, but on Leopard with this Super User, etc…I am lost
Could you please assist
Installed Dynagen/Dynamips in Standard folder.
Applications/Dynagen
Could you please assist to get this puppy going as I get the Password Prompt every time I try and execute the Dynamips Server
Cheers
Jacques
You need to run dynamips as root, to do this you just put ’sudo’ in front of the startup command. See my other article on how to do ths.
http://etherealmind.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/tips-for-dynamips-dynagen-on-leopard-os-x/
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