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FWIW - in the DynaMips .net files you can specify a startup config, which I believe will get used anytime you erase the temp files … “cnfg = c:PathToFileConfigFilename.cfg”

/TJ
>—–Original Message—– >From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] >Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 19:47 >To: cisco@groupstudy.com >Subject: Re: Virtual Pod Live CD (and Dynamips, generally) [7:117617] > >Cristi P wrote: >> >> Two questions: >> >> 1. Are u using vmware for that ? > >No, nothing like that. The Dynamips server app runs directly from a >Windows desktop. > >> 2. I haven’t had the chance to run the CD..does it have/emulate >> switches ? I believe it doesn’t. What switches are yhou talking about >> below ? >> > >OK, just to be clear, I do not have the VirtualPod CD working at all >(haven’t tried again since my first post, I gather that this project was >abandoned or put on the back burner). So Dynamips is at the core >(actually, come to think of it, IOS is truly at the core), Dynagen is a >text-based front end to simplify (greatly) the building of labs, and I >think VirtualPods would have been the next evolution yet, somewhat of a >front end to the front end, allowing for the easy sharing of lab >scenarios and router configs. > >In Dynagen, you have to build your environment first (your routers, >their interfaces, what those interfaces connect to, etc) and then you >have to build the router configs from the ground up. Basically, once >you’ve created the virtual network/test environment, when you boot the >routers, they come up as if out of the box with “would you like to enter >the initial configuration” prompt (yes, you can save your router configs >in a given scenario after this first step). So if I have it right, >VirtualPods would have allowed you to dump in both the test environment >stuff that Dynagen needs (to in turn feed to Dynamips) and *also* some >initial router configs so that you wouldn’t have to deal with everything >all the way down to “logging synchronous” on every router every time >that you create a new test environment. > >The switches that I refer to are generic “frame movers.” They are not >IOS or CAT OS-based Cisco switches. Say you need five routers all >connected together on a common Ethernet segment (you want to see OSPF DR >and BDR election, as an example). Then you need a generic little switch >to tie them all together. > >I continue to play with this daily and am getting better at cranking out >networks using Dynagen. It’s still a bit cumbersome, but once you get >hooked on running IOS on your laptop, there’s no turning back…

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