#ETHERSWITCH ROUTER IOS GNS3 DOWNLOAD HOW TO#
#ETHERSWITCH ROUTER IOS GNS3 DOWNLOAD INSTALL#

The default RAM value of the Router you added will be automatically set as follows. In the Name and Platform window, type the name of the device you added, and then click Next after configuring the platform. Wait while the IOS image upload to the GNS3 virtul machine.Īfter adding the image file to the program, click Next to continue.

#ETHERSWITCH ROUTER IOS GNS3 DOWNLOAD INSTALL#

To install the router, select New Image and click the Browse button to select the IOS image you downloaded to your computer. Now, click the New button to add a new Router.įrom the window that opens, select Run the router on the GNS3 VM and click Next. In the window that opens, you can see that the previously installed c7200 Cisco Router stores on the Local Server. To add a network device, click Edit / Preferences again. You can check that the GNS3 VM is running smoothly from the Servers Summary section.Ĭheck the network connection by pinging the GNS3 Server’s IP address. In the Preferences window, click GNS3 VM, and then select Enable the GNS3 VM.Īfter enabling “Enable the GNS3 VM”, click the OK button to save the setting.Īs soon as you press the OK button, the GNS3 VM will start running.

#ETHERSWITCH ROUTER IOS GNS3 DOWNLOAD HOW TO#

Next time i’ll be writing an article how to connect your real physical switches to your GNS3 topology.After running the GNS3 network simulator software, create a new project.Ĭlick Edit / Preferences to activate the GNS3 VM Server. If you want to know all the options for the NM16-SW module check out this article on the Cisco website: You’ll be spending a LOT of time studying and it’s better to spend your time at switches than the NM16-SW module. It’s not too expensive and using a real switch is better.įor the CCIE…do yourself a favor and invest in 2x 3560 and 2x 3550 and connect them to a breakout switch or get quad-nics. If you are studying for CCNP SWITCH just get yourself a 3550 and a 2950 or something. If you do have some money to spend get 2 or 3 Cisco 2950’s and you will have more fun. So what should you do? get real switches or use GNS3? If you have no budget and are studying for CCNA, just use GNS3. SPAN is excellent and I also like Storm Control and the Quality of Service commands. Etherchannel I don’t like since there’s no Lacp or Pagp support, the same for spanning-tree…you lack a lot of commands and there’s no way to switch to other modes like MST which you can do on a real switch. VTP is the same thing as on a real switch so no need for real hardware here. Trunking is fine, you can do everything that you want as long as you don’t care about ISL. If you want to play with vlans or vlan interfaces there’s nothing wrong using the NM16-SW module. So what do I think of it? To be honest I like it a bit better after researching all the commands and what the options are. Quality of Service (QOS): The switch commands for Qos are there like “mls qos” and you can configure the mls qos maps.

Storm Control: Storm control is there and seems to be just fine.

The commands are there so I believe it should work just fine.

Switched Port Analyzer: Should be possible but to be honest I didn’t fully test it yet.

To be honest you are better of with real switches to study spanning-tree if you ask me.

Spanning-Tree: You can learn the basics of spanning-tree, see which ports are in blocking and forwarding mode but don’t expect any fancy stuff.

Etherchannel: If you want to learn etherchannel you are better off with some real switches, you can enable it but there’s no Lacp or Pagp support.

Vlan Trunking Protocol (VTP): VTP is working just like on a switch, you can configure the VTP domain, mode like server / client / transparent, pruning and passwords.

There is no dynamic auto or dynamic desirable mode so now way to lab this. But you are able to setup a trunk connection just fine.

Trunking: Trunking is looking good, the only encapsulation type is 802.1Q which is fine (no ISL).

This is the same as you would do on any 元 switch like the 3550 or 3560. For example interface vlan 10 with IP address 10.10.10.10 and interface vlan 20 with IP address 20.20.20.20.

Vlan interfaces: You can create vlan interfaces which can be used as the default gateway for clients.

Now let’s see what “switching” options we have. This is a Cisco 3725 with the NM-16SW module so only the icon is different. You might have noticed that in the newer versions of GNS3 there’s a Etherswitch Router. Now you are probably wondering ‘which capabilities’ so let’s have a look what we can do. I’ve been getting questions about switches in GNS3 so decided to write this article explaining which switching protocols you can or cannot use in GNS3.įirst of all, it’s impossible to run switches in GNS3! That being said the option that we do have is using the NM-16SW switching module in a router which gives us some capabilities.

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