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GNS3 Network Simulation Guide

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GNS3 Network Simulation Guide

Overview of this book

GNS3 is an open-source Graphical Network Simulator used extensively by networking professionals to simulate networking devices such as Cisco, Juniper and Vyatta routers, along with Virtual PCs. GNS3 Network Simulation Guide gives you all the information you need to run a successful GNS3 simulation. You will be guided through the tricky installation pre-requisites and procedures involved in developing a simulated topology suitable for studying for Cisco CCIE Certification. We will also cover many useful tips and tricks which will help you make the most of your GNS3 simulator application. You will begin the GNS3 journey by ensuring that you have prepared your computer with any additional files required by GNS3, to set up the simulated environment needed for a successful installation process. Once GNS3 is installed, you will get to work creating a successful simulation including routers, Ethernet switches, Virtual PCs, and capture packets using Wireshark. Next, you will learn how to master GNS3's Graphical User Interface as well as the Command Console. The inner workings of GNS3 are described in depth so that you gain an appreciation of how UDP tunnels are used to tie the many components of GNS3 together. By following the clear examples and exercises in this guide, you will learn everything that you need to know about how to use GNS3 to prepare for certifications, as well as simulate real-world network scenarios.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
GNS3 Network Simulation Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Conceptualizing a project


The project you just created and saved was saved as a collection of files and folders. In this section, you will explore those files and where they live.

Use a file browser to browse to the location of your GNS3 Projects directory (typically on Windows this is %HOMEPATH%\GNS3\Projects; on OS X and Linux this is ~/GNS3/Projects).You should find, a directory there with the same name as the project you just created. Open that directory and you will see your topology.net file, a topology.png file, and four directories called captures, configs, qemu-flash-drives, and working. If you had not checked the Save nvrams including EtherSwitch VLANs and crypto keys option when you created your project, you would not see the working directory.

Note

Some operating systems like to confuse users by hiding the ".net" and ".png" part of the filename, so you may see the topology.net and the topology.png files both listed simply as "topology".

The captures directory will hold the Wireshark...