7200 emulator good for ccna/ccnp?

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1. i found an emulator for free online, the above and was wondering ifit is good for a beginner to cisco? i had to ask this question becausethe freeware comes for linux.2. what would i get if i load the ios image for the emulator into mysystem, a complete cisco router? a friend told me to do so but couldn'tanswer the question

Islington · Accepted Answer

HiI 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 create interconnections of your choice (Fast ethernet, serial, ppp, frame-relay).As it says A REAL ROUTER will real IOS. You can even run the latest IOS from CCO.

emekadavid · Answer

that means i can load the ios image from cisco on my pc, right? do iinstall another nvram or use the present one. thanksdavid

ie2210 · Answer

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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or using an application called IOS Hunter.

Good Luck!

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