Re: IE topology Dynamips and Real cisco gear question.

From: Christian Zeng (christian@zengl.net)
Date: Fri Jun 27 2008 - 09:08:15 ART


Hi,

* Brian McGahan <bmcgahan@internetworkexpert.com> wrote:
>You could use a real terminal server to reverse telnet to real switches
>and then the dynamips routers. As long as the real terminal server has
>IP reachability to the host running dynamips you can just telnet from
>the terminal server to the port numbers bound on your dynamips host.
>Like Scott said I highly doubt that the opposite is true, to have the
>dynamips terminal server reverse telnet to real switches, because as far
>as I know there is no way to create a mapping in dynamips to a physical
>TTY line on your host. Try asking on the dynamips technical blog or the
>hacki forum to be sure though.

You can build a terminal-server-like setup for your physical serial
links (real com ports or even usb-serial adapters), for example with
ser2net or conserver. Then simply point your dynamips termserv to the
tcp ports on the local host.

I used this for my security home lab with success:

http://www.internetworkpro.org/wiki/CCIE_Security_Home_Lab_with_dynamips_&_Co#outside_serial_consoles

Christian



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