Re: OT: Mac Mini for GNS3 and Dynamips?

Thanks Charles!

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 3:52 PM, <Charles.Henson_at_regions.com> wrote:
> I have run dynamips and gns3 on winblows (XP, server2k8, and 7), linux
> (debian and Ubuntu) and OSX. I can honestly say that in my humble opinion
> the GNS3 overhead is not that significant. That said, I usually run GNS3 on
> a dedicated server and then I connect remotely from another laptop with
> secureCRT or something like than so I'm not "working" on the server running
> GNS3. OSX on a 2.33 ghz MBP with 2 Gigs of memory runs 15-18 routers just
> fine.
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> My personal preference: Debian on a dual core zeon with 6gb of memory.
> Running full IPExpert or IE labs with no issues. Physical switches hanging
> off the back.
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> Charles Henson
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> Yeah, i have and I couldn't find a good user review or experience on
> using GNS3 vs Dynagen on a mac mini
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> Just the link that Dark Fiber had replied back with
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> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 3:37 PM, <Charles.Henson_at_regions.com> wrote:
>> Not to throw punches but did you google it? There are dozens of docs on
>> this.
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>> Thanks but any comparisons with using GNS3 vs Dynagen on a mac mini?
>> I'm wondering if GNS3 is going to hog more resources like it does on
>> Windows....
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>> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Dark Fiber <darkfiber08_at_gmail.com>
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> http://www.internetworkexpert.com/resources/ccie_dynamips_mac_osx.htmhttp://www.internetworkexpert.com/resources/ccie_dynamips_mac_osx.htm
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>>> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Group Study <gs_at_netengineer.org> wrote:
>>>> This is off topic a bit but I'm wondering if any of you guys/girls are
>>>> using a Mac Mini with GNS3 and with Dynamips/Dynagen? So on windows,
>>>> GNS3 takes up more resources then using plain old Dynagen... is that
>>>> the same with Mac OS X? Mac mini powerful enough to run 10 to 12
>>>> routers?
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