Re: Does This List Still Exist?

Hey Billy,

I think AutoNetkit is pretty cool with its visualization capabilities and so forth. However, I donbt find it practical for real-world situations and so havenbt used it much - I configure everything pretty much from scratch.

One significant limitation is the fixed hardware. For example, NX-OSv has a sup in slot one and 48-port gig blades in slots two through five. As such, I canbt just drop in any arbitrary client configuration.

UNetLab looks pretty cool. Is there a lot of community involvement? Hard to imagine a single guy being able to do it justice but then again Dynamips was largely the brainchild of a single individual.

I havenbt touched JunOS in quite some time. It takes awhile to get the fingers to type the correct commands. Some years ago I supported an all-JunOS environment for a client. It took quite awhile to get back into the Cisco swing of things after that gig was up. And I still have a hard time remembering to commit config changes in IOS-XR. :-/

Scott

> On May 30, 2015, at 11:37 PM, Billy Singh <billysingh_at_ipanyany.com> wrote:
>
> Not VIRL but I choose to go down the UNetLab route. It's still a beta,
> but I love the vendor agnostic approach to it. It's a good platform if
> you enjoy doing and learning things "the hard way", i.e. you don't get
> the automation and auto-configuration features that VIRL has; with
> UnetLab you're manually punching out configs (in notepad if your CCIE
> habits haven't died) and putting them in at the router CLI.
>
> VIRL is fine for CCIEv5 lab preparation as is the WEB-IOU platform.
>
> I just picked up an PowerEdge R410 with a bunch of RAM already loaded in
> it for running UNetLab and a few other things at home. The HP
> MicroServers were good for a while, but they aren't cutting the mustard
> when you're trying to run something more RAM hungry that just a few IOU
> instances.
>
> Have a look into UNetLab if you're interested in virtualisation of
> networking appliances; there's a bit of mucking around initially and you
> do have to go hunting a bit for some of the images, but I feel it's a
> good platform. I'm brushing up my Juniper skills a bit, so I'm playing
> around with the integration between Cisco and Juniper kit in UNetLab;
> the vSRX and vMX platforms coupled with IOU/CSR1000v seem to be good for
> this.
>
> Billy
>
> On 05/31/2015 01:11 PM, Scott Vermillion wrote:
>> Well, it looks as though this and my own previous response dropped into the GS account, so thatbs progress, I suppose.
>>
>> Anybody messing with VIRL? Ibve been active in that community over these past couple of weeks. Ibm not convinced that it would be ideal for lab prep (not that I know all that much about the lab these days), but itbs in its infancy, so who knows? I remember getting involved with Dynamips when it was still in diapers, too. That was fun. Still have my Mac Mini/4x3560-8PC lab (lots of dust piling up). Just invested in a pretty hefty DIY server (Shuttle) to handle VIRL memory/CPU requirements. Itbs been quite an adventure, thatbs for sureb&
>>
>> Cheers all,
>>
>> Scott
>>
>>
>>> On May 30, 2015, at 9:01 PM, Doug Kenline <dkenline_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> this is the great Group Study list
>>>
>>> long live the great Group Study list
>>>
>>> Doug Kenline
>>> Reston, Virginia
>>>
>>> was
>>>
>>>> Subject: Re: Does This List Still Exist?
>>>> From: scott_ccie_list_at_it-ag.com
>>>> Date: Sat, 30 May 2015 20:50:30 -0600
>>>> CC: ccielab_at_groupstudy.com
>>>> To: jay.mcmickle_at_yahoo.com
>>>>
>>>> Thanks, Jay. Unfortunately, this came VFR direct - not through my list
>>> subscription. Tried to re-subscribe but was told I already was subscribed.
>>> Looks like my last list delivery was back in Feb (and was mid-thread). This
>>> was once *the* place to be for the digit hunt. Bummer.
>>>>
>>>>> On May 30, 2015, at 8:44 PM, Jay McMickle <jay.mcmickle_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Exists, but dormant.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Jay McMickle- 2x CCIE #35355 (R/S,Sec)
>>>>> Sr. Network & Security Architect
>>>>> Sent from my iPhone 5
>>>>>
>>>>>> On May 30, 2015, at 8:59 PM, Scott Vermillion <scott_ccie_list_at_it-ag.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>>> Once in a great while (every few months) I get a message that looks like
>>> part of a thread and then nothing again. :-/ Setting up a new Macbook, not
>>> sure if I should just delete this account once and for allb&
>>>>>> (apologies for any annoyance)
>>>>>>
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