Do you need simulation/emulation or analysis? And if simulation for proof of concept or training?
For simulation/emulation of a cisco IOS router environment and PIX/ASA FW as far as i know there are no other/better/more cost effective options than dynamips/dynagen/GNS3. Very suitable for routing functional proof of concepts. Never used it with an ASA image and an IDS image but did quite some work with the PIX emulator which worked very well and on a proof of concept basis results can be extrapolated to the ASA. What limitations are you running into with PIX/ASA on GNS3? As for cisco switch emulation there is none on which you could load real IOS images, the cisco routers which dynamips can emulate are based on general purpose hardware (cpu, pci bus, interface dirvers etc.). cisco switches are built around proprietary/closed asics. If you have access to a Cisco Academy Program there you could use a simulator called Packet Tracer which simulates switches aswell, but is only suitable for low end training purposes. As for config analysis/auditing have a look at nipper, the last time i used it i think it was still open source, apparenlty now its commercial: http://www.titania.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=48&Itemid=59 On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 11:49 PM, John Kesoglou <[email protected]> wrote: > I am looking for a good network simulation/emulator software that can > analyze configs of ASA's , Routers, and Switches. I have been trying to use > GNS3 and find that there are too many limitations using the ASA/PIX features > > > > Thanks > > John > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
