Indeed the troubleshooting section will run on IOU. This is Cisco's
internal simulation software, that's been around a long time, much
longer than Dynamips (I wonder why people always call it GNS3, as
that's just a GUI :-P). IOU is used within Advanced Services to
simulate a customers network as it's too expensive to spend a lot of
time building a separate lab for each customer over and over again.
For now there are no switching scenario's in the troubleshooting
section, although there are things going on at Cisco in terms of
virtualizing many more things than just the router IOS, so I wouldn't
be surprised that switches are added quite soon. Therefore we keep
teaching our students to do troubleshooting on switches and we
included layer 2 stuff in our troubleshooting labs!
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Regards,
Rick Mur
CCIE2 #21946 (R&S / Service Provider)
Sr. Support Engineer – IPexpert, Inc.
URL: http://www.IPexpert.com
On 16 okt 2009, at 03:25, Dale Shaw wrote:
Hi,
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 11:30 AM, nicholas golden
<[email protected]> wrote:
I didn't know that about the troubleshooting section, so it's
virtual as in like a simulator? I wonder how complicated it will
get, I know when I did the CCNA/CCNP recently the scenarios were
not that complex just due to software limitations.
Topologies of up to 30 routers.
Routers are virtual, running IOU (IOS On UNIX).
No Catalyst-based switching.
cheers,
Dale
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