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!
Hey bro,
Did you only try the idlepc values with * ? Contrarary to some beliefs, I often found that values without * are sometimes a lot BETTER than those with *.
Also are you using the latest IOS on those virtual routers? Sometimes it helps just to downgrade the IOS versions.
Finally, you could change the model of the router that you are using in Dynamips. I NEVER had any luck with some of the 2600 series so I ended up doing all my Dynamips labs on the 3640s or the 7200s (ok I do throw in a couple of 1721s here and there).
Hope that helps!
Nick
Nick,
Thanks for the response. Actually, I have only been using the idlepc values with a star so ill try some others.
As far as the IOS goes I use 12.2 code and mostly 3640s.
Ill grab a different image and see if that changes anything.
Thanks again!
Brandon