It can be very hard to get hands on practise working with networking technologies. It usually requires a stack of routers and switches to be able to configure up a meaningful topology. There are simulator software packages but they don’t run the code that runs on real routers.<\/p>\n
Recently I discovered dynamips<\/a> written by Christophe Fillot who is either a phd student or faculty member at UTC (University of Technology of Compiegne, France)<\/a>, I’m not sure which. Its an application that emulates the MIPS hardware of a range of Cisco routers. Cisco IOS software can be booted by this emulator. IOS software is not distributed with dynamips as that would be a violation of Cisco’s copyright. If you have a Cisco support contract you will have access to IOS software downloads. In addition to the core dynamips<\/a> application there is dynagen<\/a> (written by a number of people) which is a python user interface which makes interacting with dynamips a whole lot easier.<\/p>\n To get started, head over to the tutorial<\/a> on the dynagen<\/a> website<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It can be very hard to get hands on practise working with networking technologies. It usually requires a stack of routers and switches to be able to configure up a meaningful topology. There are simulator software packages but they don’t run the code that runs on real routers. Recently I discovered dynamips written by Christophe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networking","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}