dynamips

Description

I started in August 2005 a project to emulate a Cisco 7200 on a traditionnal PC. Now, it also supports Cisco 3600 series (3620, 3640 and 3660).

The goals of this emulator are mainly:

• To be used as a training platform, with software used in real world. It

would allow people to become more familiar with Cisco devices, Cisco being the world leader in networking technologies ;

• Test and experiment the numerous and powerful features of Cisco IOS ;
• Check quickly configurations to be deployed later on real routers.

Of course, this emulator cannot replace a real router: you should be able to get a performance of about 1 kpps (depending on your host machine), to be compared to the 100 kpps delivered by a NPE-100 (the oldest NPE model). So, it is simply a complementary tool to real labs for administrators of Cisco networks or people wanting to pass their CCNA/CCNP/CCIE exams.

Application availability

This application is available from the following Mandriva media:

cooker x86_64 contrib-release - View package information

2008.0 i586 contrib-release - View package information

2008.0 x86_64 contrib-release - View package information

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