Has anyone been able to come up with something for the IPExpert initial Cat1-4 config conversion to GNS3 yet? It seems everyone is just talking about using breakout switches...I'm wanting to use the GNS3 switches rather than physical. John can you post the spreadsheet you created for the switch connections?
Thanks, Ryan Gillespie Systems Engineer P | 314-392-6955 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bob McCouch Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 9:22 AM To: Adam Booth Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [OSL | CCIE_RS] Converting labs to use with GNS That's why my sed scripts ignore router-to-switch connections, I use a 3750 breakout switch and a set of 4 lab switches. It's the only way to get full functionality with a Dynamips lab. In early testing of the setup I used all 3550s and it works, you just won't get CDP both ways if you're using the QinQ/breakout switch method, and you lose all the 3560-specific features. 3550s usually run US$75-85 on eBay, which is pretty reasonable in my opinion. Sent from my iPad On Aug 5, 2012, at 8:41 PM, Adam Booth <[email protected]> wrote: Hi John, I don't know if you're aware of it but another option is to look at using real switches with dynamips/GNS3. Tentatively you could get by with 4 x 3550s which support a reasonable amount of feature parity with the 3560 (but missing out on QoS, private VLAN and I think IPv6) which are relatively inexpensive to acquire on ebay these days. You will either need to have a lot of physical interfaces representing each router interface connecting to a switch (using multiple 4 Port Ethernet NICs or a bunch of USB NICs), or you can look at using another switch using dot1q tunnelling to act as a breakout switch. There are a number of blogs that work document how to do this, and it's what I used for my home lab (though I did have some 3750s which are pretty much stackable 3560s) Tentatively while you need 4 switches (plus possibly another as a breakout switch) only two need to be a 3560/3750 since most of the workbook labs that rely on 3560 specific functionality occur on Cat1/Cat2 meaning Cat3/4 can be lower cost 3550s. Cheers, Adam On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 10:00 AM, John Olsen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Guys > > Ok, Thanks to Bob for sending me the text file, however this does not > seem to do all that I need. > > What started me thinking about this was that so far I have been > working through the labs from book 1 by building my own config in > GNS3. Apart from the first few, where the switches are a vital part of > the lab, this works pretty well, with a bit of care over the > inevitable different interface designations. However I have come to > lab 13, where the CAT switches need to take part in the BGP peering. > So what I have been trying to do is make the IPexpert GNS3 config work > to do this. First thing I found that I needed that I did not have was > a cross reference between the interfaces used on the actual Cat > switches and the interfaces that replace them in the GNS3 config, so I > now have a spreadsheet that does that. Next I need to get them > configured to do as much as possible, eg set up the appropriate > trunking. At the moment I am getting kind of bogged down in > that..does anyone have any configs for that, eg the equivalent of the > initial configs as provided in the workbooks, only for the GNS > topology instead of the Cat switches. Or is this not actually > feasable? Which labs is the GNS3 topology really useful for and which > ones would I be better to do using rack time? I do have lab time available on > the Proctor labs, but find an eight hour stretch a bit hard to schedule. > > regards > John > > > On 1/08/2012 12:35 p.m., Bob McCouch wrote: > >> bob@lab:~/scripts$ cat ipx-config-fixups.txt >> ##############################**######################### >> ##### THIS IS NOT AN EXECUTABLE SCRIPT ##### >> ##############################**######################### >> >> >> > ______________________________**_________________ > For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, > please visit www.ipexpert.com > > Are you a CCNP or CCIE and looking for a job? Check out > www.PlatinumPlacement.com > > http://onlinestudylist.com/**mailman/listinfo/ccie_rs<http://onlinestu > dylist.com/mailman/listinfo/ccie_rs> > _______________________________________________ For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, please visit www.ipexpert.com Are you a CCNP or CCIE and looking for a job? 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