From: Paul Borghese (pborghese@groupstudy.com)
Date: Tue May 22 2007 - 11:02:44 ART
I recently purchased a new box for Dynamips. Fry's has specials almost
every week on CPU/Motherboard deals. In fact, now is a good time to
purchase as AMD and Intel are in a price war.
I was able to purchase an AMD Dual Core X2 3800+ processor and motherboard
for $85.00 from Frys. The motherboard includes an Ethernet interface and
graphics card.
My complete system is the following:
AMD X2 3800+ and
Motherboard (ECS GeForce 6100SM-M): $85.00
Case: $49.00 - $20.00 Rebate: $29.00
4 GB/Memory from Frys.com: $229.00
With the correct Dynamips configuration I can easily run 20 simultaneous
routers without issues. In order to obtain the Processor/Motherboard deal
you need to walk into the local Frys as I believe the deals are not
advertised online. Every week the deals change but expect to pay around
$100 for a dual core CPU/Motherboard combo.
For the memory, I found Frys.com to be less expensive then the retail store.
For the OS, I highly recommend CentOS 5 which is a Linux distribution.
You can also install my Virtual Pod (www.virtualpod.org) OS based upon
Ubuntu ... but frankly I have not had time to work on it and it needs
updating.
I have it setup so a user account immediately drops you into Dynagen. So
you simply give your username/password and are immediately connected to
the dynagen front-end.
If you want to see it in action, send me a private e-mail and I will
create an account for you.
Take care,
Paul Borghese
pborghese@groupstudy.com
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> With Linux, difference in performance is some what 30-40% gain.
>
> HTH
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> Du,
> Jianbo
> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 2:38 PM
> To: Guyler, Rik; Radioactive Frog; Cisco certification
> Subject: RE: Cheap hardware for Dynamips
>
> I am running dynamips with 9 routers (3640) and 4 switches (3640) in a
> Linux server (2x 1.8CPU + 4G RAM). It running very well excepted an
> acceptable delay. You may try it on Linux platform before upgrade
> hardware.
>
> Regards,
> Jerry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> Guyler, Rik
> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 7:27 PM
> To: 'Radioactive Frog'; 'Cisco certification'
> Subject: RE: Cheap hardware for Dynamips
>
> Frog, have you checked out eBay? I've found dozens of tier-1 servers
> out
> there for next to nothing. Now you may have to add the memory and hard
> drives yourself but if you only spend $150 for a dual-proc box then you
> should have something left over (some have them, some don't). I don't
> know
> about a 4-proc box though. To get a reasonably modern server in a 4-way
> config for cheap is going to be a rare find I think. It may be much
> more
> feasible to get two of the 2-way boxes instead.
>
> Rik
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> Radioactive Frog
> Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 11:52 PM
> To: Cisco certification
> Subject: OT: Cheap hardware for Dynamips
>
> Hi,
> I am running dynamips on 2gigs cpu/1gig ram but can not run more than 6
> instances.
>
> Just wondering if anyone can suggest a cheap hardware (PC/Server) with 4
> CPU
> and 3-4 gigs RAM. I believe using this type of high configuration, I
> would
> be able to run more then 15 instances.
>
> Froggie..
>
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