Experiment with your Idle-pc values for each IOS image. Usually takes me around 6-8 tries to get things squared away for each image on a new install. Also until you "login" to the router you will see a continued high plateau for CPU cycles.
The GNS3 walkthrough at http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gns-3/GNS3-0.5-tutorial.pdf?download will get you through most of the initial rough spots. I have current installs of GNS3 on ubuntu, os x, and winxp and find it to be as good a learning environment as my lab setup at home, but much more portable. HTH Matt On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 8:11 AM, Vikas Sharma <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for that Mitch. I'll give it a go. > Vikas. > > On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 11:06 PM, Mitch Peterson < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Redhat is a good distro, but Ubuntu has a much better community for >> support. I'd recommend using it instead if you can. Installing GNS3 on >> Ubuntu is ridiculously easy it's "sudo apt-get install gns3". >> The installation documentation is pretty good, it can be found at >> https://help.ubuntu.com/9.04/installation-guide/index.html & the support >> forums at http://ubuntuforums.org. A word of advise though, read the >> faqs before asking something, they tend to get a snippy if you ask a >> question that's been answered 100 times. >> >> Mitch >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, please >> visit www.ipexpert.com >> >> > > > -- > Vikas Sharma > Network Specialist > Fujitsu Australia > (M): 0421 052 117 > > _______________________________________________ > For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, please > visit www.ipexpert.com > > -- Matt
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