Re: R&S rack Rental or GNS ?

I did all the labs once in GNS3,

I have XPS, 2.5G, with 4G ram,

I didn't face any problem,

But don't forget u have to do the switching part at least once in real
switches

Good Luck,

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 3:45 PM, michael haynes <mghaynes_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> That depends. If you mean dual booting, that won't affect dynamips one way
> or the other since you can only have one OS active at a time. If you mean
> a
> virtual machine, that would affect how many routers you can have loaded
> since vmware will take up resources too.
>
> Personally, I think you may want to beef up your memory a little bit. If
> you
> do that, you may want to consider 64 bit version of linux to run so you can
> use more than 3 gigs or so.
>
> As far as cpu goes, I think a core2 duo should be fine for a full lab.
>
> Definitely play with different idlepc values. I don't think six routers on
> your setup should be taking up 80% cpu.
> 11 routers on my quad cpu takes about 30% at idle so yours should probably
> be about the same, not 80.
>
> Good luck.
> Michael
>
>
> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Rameez Khan <rameezk1999_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Thanks guys....i reallly appreciate your responses and i hope Ubuntu
> could
> > save my life....
> >
> > did any one try to run it along with windows xp ? means both OS on same
> > machine? will it give the same result in GNS?
> >
> > On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 1:04 PM, <rameezk1999_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Dears,
> > >
> > > I am stuck in a situation please help me out!
> > >
> > > I have got Dell Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz Laptop woth 2 GB Ram and i am about
> to
> > > start
> > > IE WB 4.1 over it. Is it possible to setup run complete lab over it
> > > smoothly? i
> > > tried to run few 3725 with idlepc assigned but the Cpu usage shoots
> upto
> > > 80%.
> > > Please tell me if you have any resource to setup a complete lab on GNS?
> > Do
> > > share it guys....
> > >
> > >
> > > Lastly, if there is no other way then tell me who is offering the
> > cheapest
> > > Rack
> > > as per IE WB 4.1 topology? i am looking for 24x7 Rack for atleast 2
> > > months...
> > >
> > > Please unicast me at:
> > > rameezk_1999_at_hotmail.com
> > >
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