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Two questions:
1. Are u using vmware for that ? 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 ?
scott vermillion wrote: > > Folks, > > In my recent thread on Cisco PEC, Dynamips was one of the first suggestions > that surfaced. I have been testing this now for several days and am > definitely warming to the whole thing. Dynagen (a front end) is actually > not nearly as nasty and hairy as it at first seems. And I have been able to > run a good handfull of routers connected via a mixture of Ethernet > switches/FR switches on a Dell XPS laptop w/ a 2 GHz proc and 2GB RAM. I am > currently working out remote access to a high-power server that just happens > to go unused 99% of the time; I should really be able to crank some bigger > networks up then (although I’ll be tethered to Internet access for that to > work - still waiting on airborne WiFi to become a reality in the US before > I’ll be able to work labs in flight!). > > What really, really impressed me today was the funtionality added by the > Windows loopback interface (I did not know such a thing was a reality, but > it’s very simple to set up). I am know doing packet capture off of my > emulated networks via Wireshark on my laptop (WinPcap 4.0 is at the heart of > this all)!! Very cool. Granted, there is no real “mission” traffic flying > around, but it’s nevertheless impressive to be able to capture the traffic > that I’m generating and receiving. > > So I’ve also been looking at Paul’s beta project, VirtualPods. I do not run > Linux and so downloaded the ~700 MB worth of stuff for the “live CD.” I > have burned the extracted content directly to a CD (a rewritable DVD, > actually) but cannot seem to boot directly from that. I am not sure if > there is something I need to do with the download to generate the bootable > disk or if the direct copy is supposed to work. > > Anyone out there had any luck with this? Paul, if you’re out there, I have > some time on my hands right now and would be happy to help with beta testing > and evaluation (although I won’t be any help to you where cranking out raw > code is concerned). > > Sorry, no Linux expert here, it’s on my list of things to do…

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