I'm interested to see what they come up with on the switching end of things... I could see adding switching capability through OpenvSwitch or something but I don't know how they'd possibly get IOS-style switch emulation in the product. Although GNS3 has added a ton of non-Cisco capability (which is awesome), I'm also interested to know how they plan to enhance the life of a product that is mostly built around quickly-becoming-obsolete Cisco emulation.
I will probably throw $20 in just to see what they're cooking, but I suspect that Cisco CML (the unfortunate new name for Cisco VIRL) will become a primary CCIE prep tool. After all, if the rumors of v5 being all IOU-based are true, VIRL/CML will give the most realistic experience/behavior for lab prep as it uses "vIOS" which is for all intent and purpose IOU/IOL. Read about my first exposure to VIRL here: http://herdingpackets.net/2013/07/18/going-virl/ Ivan Pepelnjak from IOSHints/IPSpace did a good follow-up post here after a few of us got preview access to CML: http://blog.ipspace.net/2013/10/cisco-modeling-lab-virl-behind-scenes.html I'm hoping to get a more comprehensive post put together about CML soon now that I've had a chance to play with it for a bit. Bob -- Sent from my iPhone, please excuse any typos. > On Nov 22, 2013, at 9:44 PM, Mark B <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Just a heads-up for anyone who does not know yet: > > > I believe this is a worthy cause. GNS3 is attempting to roll out some big > improvements (i.e. switching etc etc). > > > Even if we are using live racks at the CCIE training level -- GNS3 is an > incredible tool for practicing some CISCO technologies. > > > Currently they are 405% past their goal. 14 more days for their fund-raising > project. > > Read about it here. Think about Switching being available in GNS3 :-) > > > https://gns3.crowdhoster.com/become-an-early-release-member > > > Cheers! > Mark > _______________________________________________ > Free CCIE R&S, Collaboration, Data Center, Wireless & Security Videos :: > > iPexpert on YouTube: www.youtube.com/ipexpertinc _______________________________________________ Free CCIE R&S, Collaboration, Data Center, Wireless & Security Videos :: iPexpert on YouTube: www.youtube.com/ipexpertinc
