Dynamips, Dynagen, GNS3 0.7, IOS15.0 and Snow Leopard OSX


GNS 3 Ver0.7

Downloaded and installed over the top of my existing setup

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And a good sized lab with IOS 15.0


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Burning less than 100% CPU


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I am still running a whole bunch of other applications here including Mail, Skype, Web Browser and twelve other utilities.

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And the memory use is very light

Because I have the

ghostios

and

 sparsemem

enabled the memory footprint is very small.

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autostart = False
[localhost:7200]
workingdir = /Users/gregferro/Documents/GNS/BE-WAN-Emulator-V1.1_working
[[7200]]
image = IOS/c7200-ipbasek9-mz.150-1.M1.image
idlepc = 0x60638538
ghostios = True
sparsemem = True
[[ROUTER R0]]
console = 2000
idlepc = 0x61a22c98
cnfg = /Users/gregferro/Documents/GNS/BE-WAN-Emulator-V1.1_configs/R0.cfg
slot1 = PA-2FE-TX
f1/0 = SW0 3
x = -46.0
y = -432.0
[[ROUTER R1]]
console = 2001
cnfg = /Users/gregferro/Documents/GNS/BE-WAN-Emulator-V1.1_configs/R1.cfg
slot1 = PA-2FE-TX
f1/0 = SW1 2
f1/1 = SW0 2
x = -183.0
y = -300.0
[[ROUTER R2]]
console = 2002
cnfg = /Users/gregferro/Documents/GNS/BE-WAN-Emulator-V1.1_configs/R2.cfg
slot1 = PA-2FE-TX
f1/0 = SW6 1
f1/1 = SW0 1
x = 80.0
y = -299.0
[localhost:7202]
workingdir = /Users/gregferro/Documents/GNS/BE-WAN-Emulator-V1.1_working
udp = 10200
[[7200]]
image = IOS/c7200-ipbasek9-mz.150-1.M1.image
idlepc = 0x60638538
ghostios = True
sparsemem = True
[[ROUTER R4]]
console = 2004
cnfg = /Users/gregferro/Documents/GNS/BE-WAN-Emulator-V1.1_configs/R4.cfg
slot1 = PA-2FE-TX
f1/0 = R3 f1/0
f1/1 = SW2 1
slot2 = PA-2FE-TX
f2/0 = SW7 1
x = -70.0
y = -56.0
[[ROUTER R5]]
console = 2005
cnfg = /Users/gregferro/Documents/GNS/BE-WAN-Emulator-V1.1_configs/R5.cfg
slot1 = PA-2FE-TX
f1/0 = SW2 2
f1/1 = SW3 2
x = -221.0
y = 57.0
[localhost:7204]
workingdir = /Users/gregferro/Documents/GNS/BE-WAN-Emulator-V1.1_working
udp = 10300
[[7200]]
image = IOS/c7200-ipbasek9-mz.150-1.M1.image
idlepc = 0x60638538
ghostios = True
sparsemem = True
[[ROUTER R6]]
console = 2006
cnfg = /Users/gregferro/Documents/GNS/BE-WAN-Emulator-V1.1_configs/R6.cfg
slot1 = PA-2FE-TX
f1/0 = SW7 2
f1/1 = SW4 2
x = 119.0
y = 56.0
[[ROUTER R7]]
console = 2007
cnfg = /Users/gregferro/Documents/GNS/BE-WAN-Emulator-V1.1_configs/R7.cfg
slot1 = PA-2FE-TX
f1/0 = SW3 1
f1/1 = SW4 3
slot2 = PA-2FE-TX
f2/0 = SW5 3
x = -230.0
y = 255.0
[[ETHSW SW3]]
1 = access 1
2 = access 1
3 = access 1
x = -183.5
y = 161.0
[[ETHSW SW2]]
1 = access 1
2 = access 1
x = -178.5
y = -29.0
[[ETHSW SW7]]
1 = access 1
2 = access 1
x = 48.5
y = -24.0
[localhost:7206]
workingdir = /Users/gregferro/Documents/GNS/BE-WAN-Emulator-V1.1_working
udp = 10400
[[7200]]
image = IOS/c7200-ipbasek9-mz.150-1.M1.image
idlepc = 0x60638538
ghostios = True
sparsemem = True
[[ROUTER R3]]
console = 2003
cnfg = /Users/gregferro/Documents/GNS/BE-WAN-Emulator-V1.1_configs/R3.cfg
slot1 = PA-2FE-TX
f1/0 = R4 f1/0
f1/1 = SW1 3
slot2 = PA-2FE-TX
f2/0 = SW6 2
x = -69.0
y = -160.0
[[ROUTER R8]]
console = 2008
cnfg = /Users/gregferro/Documents/GNS/BE-WAN-Emulator-V1.1_configs/R8.cfg
f0/0 = SW4 1
slot1 = PA-2FE-TX
f1/0 = SW5 2
f1/1 = SW3 3
x = 108.0
y = 260.0
[[ROUTER R9]]
console = 2009
cnfg = /Users/gregferro/Documents/GNS/BE-WAN-Emulator-V1.1_configs/R9.cfg
slot1 = PA-2FE-TX
f1/0 = SW5 1
x = -53.0
y = 377.0
[[ETHSW SW1]]
2 = access 1
3 = access 1
x = -194.5
y = -186.0
[[ETHSW SW0]]
1 = access 1
2 = access 1
3 = access 1
x = -50.5
y = -321.0
[[ETHSW SW5]]
1 = access 1
2 = access 1
3 = access 1
x = -55.5
y = 316.0
[[ETHSW SW4]]
1 = access 1
2 = access 1
3 = access 1
x = 67.5
y = 168.0
[[ETHSW SW6]]
1 = access 1
2 = access 1
x = 69.5
y = -192.0
[GNS3-DATA]
configs = BE-WAN-Emulator-V1.1_configs
workdir = BE-WAN-Emulator-V1.1_working

About Greg Ferro

Greg Ferro is a Network Engineer/Architect, mostly focussed on Data Centre, Security Infrastructure, and recently Virtualization. He has over 20 years in IT, in wide range of employers working as a freelance consultant including Finance, Service Providers and Online Companies. He is CCIE#6920 and has a few ideas about the world, but not enough to really count.

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Comments

  1. Heh, try running bgp on those routers, it will eat up your PC, you, your fridge, or anything that is in 100 meters distance

    and GNS never again, dynagen is perfectly ok and doenst get stuck.

  2. I’ve run into memory leaks most times I’ve used GNS lately which is a shame. Hopefully they’ve improved this in the new version

  3. Peter Koltl says:

    Well, my project file did not load after upgrading to 0.7 because it contained a PEMU PIX. I had to create a new project with a PIX, then add a license key, then cut the resulting project config, then insert it back into the original file.

    [pemu localhost]
    section had to be changed to

    [qemu localhost:10525]
    workingdir = D:munka-unencGNSprojt2_working
    udp = 20000
    [[525]]
    netcard = e1000
    key = …
    image = D:munka-unenctftppix804.bin
    options = -nographic
    serial = …
    [[FW FW0]]
    e1 = R1 e1/0
    e2 = R2 f0/0
    e3 = R2 f1/0
    x = -79.0
    y = -53.0

  4. Hi

    I have problem to create LOOPBACK in my MacBook and in GNS3
    Do you have any solution ?