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Nov 11, 2010

Instructions for installing and using GNS3


1. Introduction: 

1.1. Dynamips:- A program used to simulate the Cisco router by Cristophe Fillot 
written, similar to VMWare emulator program, however Dynamips using the Cisco IOS
 router to simulate. 
- According to the authors, Dynamips is written with the following purposes:
+ To help people become familiar with Cisco devices.
+ Test and experiment features of Cisco IOS.
+ Test models online before going into the actual configuration.

1.2. Dynagen:- A program written specifically to support the configuration of Dynamips is easy through:

+ Create a configuration file is much simpler than using the new program Dynamips independently.
+ Provide a handy CLI for managing the virtual router with commands such as list, telnet, start, stop ...
2. Download the necessary software.

- 2 in 1:
Dynagen 0.11.0 and Dynamips 0.2.8-RC2 Windows XP installer 

Quote:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dyna-gen/files/

Download trial version for Windows 
- Download GNS3:
http://www.gns3.net/download
Download the IOS to test:
http://smfviet.com/c2691-adventerprisek9-mz.123-17a.bin
3. Installation instructions:

GNS3 Install 3.1:
You just installed by default only normal:
click on: GNS3-0.5-win32-all-in-one.exe

software will be installed together with:

Wincap installation:


Wincap after installing, install GNS3 tieo Add to:

3.2 Installing Dynagen and dynamic: