You have already seen how useful the GNS3 management console is in observing the inner workings of GNS3, but so far I have only shown you two commands: debug 3
and show run
. Using the help or ? command reveals that there are several more console commands:
=> help Documented commands (type help <topic>): ======================================== aux console export idlepc push save stop ver capture copy filter import qmonitor send suspend clear debug help list reload show telnet confreg end hist no resume start vboxexec
Many of these commands are remnants left from the original Dynagen code and have better replacements in the GUI, but sometimes I find it easier to issue a command like show start
than to check the topology.net
file in a text editor.
Probably, the most useful commands as far as fine-tuning a router goes are the idlepc idlemax
and idlepc idlesleep
commands. Although...