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Start GNS 3

.bin compressed binary format slow time for the # times 8 routers all starting so instead use the image unpacker 32 and then 72 MB way faster to boot by just using image unpacker. 2. Select Edit-> Preferences 3. Select a real location to save your files under Project Directory:

4. You image directory is where are your IOS images coming from same thing. Point to a file.

5. Select Dynamips tab on left. Usually default path is fine. You can leave it.

You can leave it at the default directory but you want to hit Test. Test this feature. To make sure that the dynamips is running. You should get Dynamips successfully started in green on the bottom. Make sure you have Enable ghost IOS feature because without it it will eat a chunk of your memory. 6. You can also do wireshark captures:

7. It will ask you if you want to use this image for more than one router:

Select 2.

8. Therefore I selected the image (uncompressed) and the platform. The model I want to use it for and the size. Then select Default image for this platform and Save.

9. Now this is the IOS that is going to be available for this platform.

10. If I try to drag something else it will say sorry you dont have the right image for that. (No image for platform) 11. Save and close. 12. If add the device and hover mouse over it, it will provide you the stats for it. It already has an IOS configured. On this point you can right click and start. It takes a moment and on the right you can see router is green not red so it is active, powered on. You can right click and select console to putty into it. Now you are using the router. Just because you close the session it doesnt mean it isnt running. It is still running in the background. 13. Now when you press Ctrl+Alt+Del you see 100% CPU usage under Performance because of one router. If you see the processes you see it is dynamips the engine behind GNS3. This is because the Cisco router is not doing anything but is running its own process thinking it has its own process therefore it sees GNS3 as demanding 100% of your router.

This is what is happening:

14. Look at the idle PC value. A value that tries to identify the process running on the router and tries to idle it out. Right click and idle PC the device then it will take a guess. You might need to mess with it for a while it will find a value that is currently killing your processor. You will see it comes out with all of these different values:

Select the start and keep task manager on the side. Then select ok on the * value and it will now slow the CPU usage. OK

15. Select Edit and IOS images and hypervisors.

This is the screen where we originally added it and now notice that there is an IDLE PC value auto filled out for that IOS image therefore any other routers added will do the same and will not eat up your CPU usage. 16. Right click to change the names being displayed:

17. You can also add modules to them. Double click the device.

Click on R1 and you get this is R1 and this is the platform and model and IOS we are using.

These are the Memory sizes. These are the Slots: you can give it a WIC 2 T that is two serial ports on one WIC and if you add another WIC under wic1 also beign WIC-2T then you have four serial ports.

Now on Slot 1:

Here you can add in the EtherSwitch (NM-16ESW) which is an etherswitch model with 16 ports. You also have IDS modules (NM-CIDS). For the others look online on Google and images to see what they are for the rest. Now add WIC 2T for the other router too. 18. Hover over the device and now you can see the serial ports are added to it:

19. Select add a link and it will give you the following:

I will choose serial for router. Click on the first router and click on the destination. It will immediately link them and on the right you can see the links which the specific interfaces:

as you go through it will cable them for you. 20. If you were not concerned with switching then I would just add an Ethernet Switch which you just change the information of it and that is the configuration no CLI. Then connect Fast Ethernet cables from router to switch and thats it.

21. 22. Select Play on the top and it will start every single device on the platform.

23. Then everything goes green because everything is now powered on. Before they were red because they werent. 24. You can right click and console. Then putty will be loading. The three routers booting will peg your processor for a little bit up to 100% while it gets everything loaded then it will go to below 5%. Note that you are using the built in putty. 25. You can add pictures to the topologies or add rectangles or circles

26. If you click Save it will save the network diagram but it will not save any of your configurations. The configurations are stored as separate text files somewhere else. 27. The first thing you do when you start a new project you select new project. Project name you select a name and a project directory and select the two boxes to save the configs and the topologies. Then it asks do you want to aply the project settings to the current topology. You select yes. 28. You might want to use windows telnet client or teraterm or you might want to use SecureCRT another console program. You can set using Edit then preferences and you see the terminal

settings under General and you see the following:

29. You can also add a Frame Relay switch which is used for the ROUTE exam. This one is not like a Cisco Router it has the following:

You can setup a router as a Frame Relay Switch but the creators say why not make it easier. You can setup an ISP. 30. Sample of a Frame Relay: DLCIs are reversed.

R1 uses destination DLCI of 102 and connects to 201 to get to R2. When setting this up you will need to use the port numbers so you say:

102 gets you to 201 and click add. This will add this mapping:

This is a lot easier than setting up a router as a Frame relay switch. 31. To capture the traffic. Right click on the link and select Capture:

32. Then it says which source interface do you want to capture?

Then you select OK and it will create a packet capture for GNS3. You can then export that into wireshark for further analysis and you can see the real

packets. Now if you really had traffic going and then ended the capture then you could see when you went to preferences and capture then you would be able to see where the file is being stored. Then on the second line it says which program do you want to start and it says Wireshark when you do this capture and selected is the check box too. And it will take the capture file and it will automatically start it in wireshark once the capture button starts. 33. The Qemu/Pemu is the PIX and ASA emulator. 34. Also download the Cisco image unpacked 0.1 binary for Windows which uncompressed the IOS files.