From: Brian McGahan (bmcgahan@internetworkexpert.com)
Date: Fri Jan 26 2007 - 17:32:00 ART
Try extracting the image with something like gunzip or winrar before
booting it.
HTH,
Brian McGahan, CCIE #8593 (R&S/SP)
bmcgahan@internetworkexpert.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: Noble [mailto:noble.ccie@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 8:31 AM
To: Brian McGahan
Cc: Ali Sheeraz Mehdi; ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: Re: SP Track using Dynamips
Hi Brian,
I changed memory from 128 to 256 and below is the log....
Cisco 7200 Simulation Platform (version 0.2.6-RC5-x86)
Copyright (c) 2005,2006 Christophe Fillot.
Build date: Jan 5 2007 20:22:25
Hypervisor TCP control server started (port 7200).
Shutdown in progress...
Shutdown completed.
Shutdown in progress...
Shutdown completed.
Shutdown in progress...
Shutdown completed.
CPU0: carved JIT exec zone of 16 Mb into 512 pages of 32 Kb.
C3600 instance 'R1' (id 0):
VM Status : 0
RAM size : 256 Mb
NVRAM size : 128 Kb
Chassis : 3640
IOS image : C:\Program
Files\Dynamips\images\c3640-jk9o3s-mz.124-10a.bin
Loading ELF file 'C:\Program
Files\Dynamips\images\c3640-jk9o3s-mz.124-10a.bin'.
..
ELF entry point: 0x80008000
C3600 'R1': starting simulation (CPU0 PC=0xffffffffbfc00000), JIT
enabled.
Thank you,
-Noble
On 1/26/07, Brian McGahan <bmcgahan@internetworkexpert.com> wrote:
> How much memory did you assign to the 3640's process? Usually the log
> will increase size like that when the router instance isn't able to
boot
> and keeps looping over and over. Try adding more memory and see what
> happens.
>
>
> HTH,
>
> Brian McGahan, CCIE #8593 (R&S/SP)
> bmcgahan@internetworkexpert.com
>
> Internetwork Expert, Inc.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Noble [mailto:noble.ccie@gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 1:46 AM
> To: Brian McGahan
> Cc: Ali Sheeraz Mehdi; ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: Re: SP Track using Dynamips
>
> I setup R&S topology for IEWB. I used the URL provided by IE.
> http://www.internetworkexpert.com/resources/iosonpc.htm
>
> While I login, I get the following message but not getting command
line.
>
> "Connected to Dynamips VM "R1" (ID 0, type c3600) - Console port"
>
> Also one of the 3640 log file size increases so fast and eats up my
> free 12GB of hard disk space.
>
> If anybody knows how to fix, please help.
>
> Thank you,
>
> -Noble
>
>
> On 1/25/07, Brian McGahan <bmcgahan@internetworkexpert.com> wrote:
> > Hi Ali,
> >
> > Take a look at
> > http://www.internetworkexpert.com/resources/iosonpc.htm There are
> some
> > dynagen .net mappings that I use for R&S and SP topologies that you
> can
> > download along with step-by-step instructions on how to load it.
The
> SP
> > topology includes 7200s running 12.2S and 3600s running 12.3T. All
> you
> > need to do is search CCO for those specific image names, uncompress
> > them, and run the dynamips process.
> >
> > For ATM PVCs there are mappings to the built in Dynamips ATM
> > switch emulation process. For Cell Mode MPLS over ATM there are
> > mappings to a preconfigured 7200 router instance that MPLS switches
> the
> > ATM cells.
> >
> > As for the hardware to run it I would recommend a minimum of
> 2GB
> > of RAM and a dual-core processor. The reason for the dual-core is
> that
> > you can send the dynamips processes to the second core only, that
way
> > when they eat up 100% of the CPU (which they commonly do) you're
still
> > at only 50% overall utilization.
> >
> > Recently I switched from Windows XP to Mac OS, and I have
> > Windows running as a virtual machine inside Parallels. The nice
thing
> > about this is that when Dynamips boots inside the Windows virtual
> > machine it can take 100% of the CPU of the virtual machine process,
> but
> > still never 100% of the physical processors. You could probably get
> the
> > same effect by running Windows or Linux inside VMWare and booting
> > dynamips from there.
> >
> >
> > HTH,
> >
> > Brian McGahan, CCIE #8593 (R&S/SP)
> > bmcgahan@internetworkexpert.com
> >
> > Internetwork Expert, Inc.
> > http://www.InternetworkExpert.com
> > Toll Free: 877-224-8987 x 705
> > Outside US: 775-826-4344 x 705
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> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf
> Of
> > Ali Sheeraz Mehdi
> > Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 3:47 AM
> > To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> > Subject: SP Track using Dynamips
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> >
> >
> > Just starting my preparation for CCIE SP, want to setup SP lab using
> > Dynamips. I would appreciate if someone can recommend me the
> > specifications
> > of system like RAM, CPU etc..also which images to use (I have some
> > scattered
> > stuff, need a summary list if someone has already set it up), what
is
> > the
> > alternate of the ATM switch?
> >
> >
> >
> > Also can you simulate full SP lab using dynamips or there are some
> > short-comings as compared to the required hardware?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> >
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Ali Sheeraz Mehdi
> >
> > CCIE (R&S) # 17346
> >
> >
>
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