On 16 September 2010 16:32, Carlos Perez <[email protected]> wrote: > righ now I have an old Cisco 3550 for playing with that, best bet would be to > get an old cisco, procurve, 3com ..etc from ebay > each vendor has it own twist on "Standard Protocols"
How is best to tie that into a VM lab? Or do you just mean plug some physical hardware in to it and go from there? I've got enough machines kicking around that I could do a physical lab but space, noise and portability have prevented me from doing it so far. > On Sep 16, 2010, at 11:27 AM, Robin Wood wrote: > >> On 16 September 2010 16:08, Matthew Manor <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Have you tried Vyatta? It can do most of what Cisco IOS can do but >>> virtually, including VLANs, and you can certainly run an entire lab of >>> VMs off of it. >> >> I've just had a quick look through it but can't tell if it would help >> or not. I want to put different machines in my VirtualBox lab onto >> different VLANs so I can experiment with them. Do you know if their >> software product would do that? >> >>> >>> -Matt Manor >>> >>> On 9/16/10, Carlos Perez <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Do you mean having a switch with 802.1q? >>>> >>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>> >>>> On Sep 16, 2010, at 5:03 AM, Robin Wood <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Is there any way to setup a VLAN environment in a virtual environment? >>>>> They are something I've never had much chance to play with and I'd >>>>> love to get it labbed up so I can. I know there are virtual systems >>>>> for running IOS images but don't think I could then hang a bunch of >>>>> VMs off those machines. >>>>> >>>>> Preferably VirtualBox methods but any VM will do. >>>>> >>>>> Robin >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Pauldotcom mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom >>>>> Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Pauldotcom mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom >>>> Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> Sent from my mobile device >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Pauldotcom mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom >>> Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pauldotcom mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom >> Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com > > _______________________________________________ > Pauldotcom mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com > _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
