So I’m in the Cisco Office in Richfeild, Oh. this week teaching an ASA class.  Still, I am a bit listless from lack of excitement in my CCIE studies.  Of course I would be much more excited if I had lab gear to study on.  This is the first time in over a year that Ipexpert and IE have been completely booked in the same week. Now I know that there are other vendors out there of rack time.  But I already paid for rack time with IE and Ipexpert and I dont want to spend any more money.  Is that a crime?

Oh well. I suppose I could do some labs with dynamips.  I just wish there was some canned dynamips topologies for the IE or Ipexpert security workbooks.  Anyone know of someone that has them?  I started creating a topology with GNS3 of Ipexpert lab 1.  The issue I am having is memory.  I have 2 gigs in my macbook and there are 5 routers in lab 1.  I boot 2 and it sucks all my resources.  I try to set the idlepc value and that doesnt help.  Not sure what to do next.

On another note, does anyone have PIX 7.x running in GNS3 on a Mac?  That would REALLY make me happy!