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GNS3 is Awesome

Posted by brian | Posted in Cisco Studies, Random | Posted on 21-07-2009

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I just wanted to post up another quick example of how studying for the Cisco exam has come along way. Long ago you had to purchase expensive simulators with limited command sets for hundreds of dollars. Now you can simply fire up GNS3 running dynamips and emulate any IOS you want short of a 6000 series chassis

Here is a quick screenshot of a redistribution lab that I recently configured. 9 routers and a ASA firewall running on one VM, incredible!

GNS3lab