- i found an emulator for free online, the above and was wondering if it is good for a beginner to cisco? i had to ask this question because the freeware comes for linux.
- what would i get if i load the ios image for the emulator into my system, a complete cisco router? a friend told me to do so but couldn't answer the question
7200 emulator good for ccna/ccnp?
Sep 14, 2006
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Hi I assume you are talking about the emulator from dynamips. Its a superb tool. In fact a work colleague has used the tool to prepare for his CCIE R&S lab. At present you can only run about 5 routers on a standard pc. But that depends on the processing speed. You can also…
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I assume you are talking about the emulator from dynamips.
that means i can load the ios image from cisco on my pc, right? do i install another nvram or use the present one. thanks david
Yes it will work great except for the support for the switches (1900,
2900, etc). You can also use the version for Windows.As far as the IOS goes you will need to have a support contract with Cisco to download the image. The other possible avenues are finding an IOS image are via a P2P network (i.e.
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Good Luck!
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