I am doing the final touches on my Dynamips/real-hardware setup. 4 3560s plus a Breakout 3560-24.
I am lucky that I can borrow these machines at work. I also have 3 2800 routers that I plan to use for any router that does not use a serial connection. I plan to use 3660 12.4T IP PLUS in Dynamips. I think I will be able to run 8 routers comfortably. I found a few things on the way here. The 3550 cannot be a breakout switch as it does not tunnel trunks. I also found that the computer I plan to use, a Dell server with 2-dual-core/2-GB and 2 NICs, the NICs do not allow jumbo frames. I have ordered a USB/ethernet that allows jumbo to use as a 3rd NIC and connect to the Breakout switch. Meanwhile I am testing with my subpar laptop, a single core 1.6 Ghz AMD64 CPU, but that does jumbo frames and has 4 GB ram. I have tested the components somewhat separately and I I believe that this combination will work once I put it all together and load the configurations. This is not a success story but it looks promising so far. HTH On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 16:52 -0700, nicholas golden wrote: > http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/setup/netadapter.mspx#2 > > I found that article above, so install seems easy. I also found them > for $1 for a rj 45 male and a female usb, but then I would have to > snatch a bunch of usb cables. > > I found other ones that are 3 bucks, that are female rj45 to usb 2.0. > So I figured I would get a powered hub or 2 and hook a bunch of those > up and see what happens. Total cost ~ 50 bucks I think for around 16 > ports. > > So with that cooking, I want to see if anyone has done it and how > "funky" it acts :) > > --- On Tue, 10/20/09, Stan Ilchev <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Stan Ilchev <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [OSL | CCIE_RS] Dynamips/GNS3 - USB to ethernet - > does it work or does it suck? > To: "nicholas golden" <[email protected]>, > [email protected] > Date: Tuesday, October 20, 2009, 4:31 PM > > USB Nic’s are very inexpensive on Ebay and with an USB > powered hub you should be able to get good resaults. > > Stan > > As the subject says (I'm fishing around on forums as > well) I was wondering if I could use a bunch of USB to > ethernet adapters and inject that into GNS3. I was > thinking of selling off my rack of routers (mostly > 3640's, 2600's etc) and buying some 3560's and then > getting a full topology going at home to save some > cash money, since I am still out of work. > > I thought of doing quad nic's, but the problem is I > have a gaming machine, that has 2 video cards in it > (gtx 280's in SLI for your gamer geeks out there) and > a quad core overclocked @ 3.7 with 8 gigs of ram (ddr > 2000). I only have ONE pci slot available. In vista I > can run over 20+ routers with barely a scant 35% cpu > usage and still a lot of ram left over, although > thinking of going to ubuntu which I already have > installed on another much less powerful machine. > > So I am looking for either a break out box, a riser > card to a break out box or whatever solution will work > that's not going to break the bank. I saw the quad > nics but those are looking mighty pricey, unless > someone knows some secret place I can snatch. > > Thanks for the input! > > > > ______________________________________________________ > _______________________________________________ > For more information regarding industry leading CCIE > Lab training, please visit www.ipexpert.com > > _______________________________________________ > For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, please > visit www.ipexpert.com _______________________________________________ For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, please visit www.ipexpert.com
