Dynamips/Dynagen Dynamic Duo
Posted by Aragoen Celtdra on 13th May 2008
Last night I finally got the chance to sit down and drill in to the inner workings of Dynagen/Dynamips. Setting it up wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be. Well, considering the fact that this is not really the first time I’ve touched it. I’ve actually played around with it in the past, but just not enough to be able to set up my own lab.
Learning it began by reading the tutorial. It wasn’t as straight-forward for me as I’d like it to be. But with a little bit of resourcefulness (translate google.com) I was able to get a little sense out of the documentation. The screen-shots on the tutorial were also helpful in giving me a good understanding of what the text was trying to explain. Perhaps one day I’ll write up my own tutorial in a more straight-forward fashion… although it might be improbable that I will since there are so many write-ups and video tutorials on it all over the web already. Maybe I can post links instead. Yeah… that’s what I might do. =)
For my first exercise, I went ahead and “labbed up” one of the lab figures in Wendell Odom’s ICND2 OECG book. In particular, I’m talking about figure 10-5 on page 390 where he talks about EIGRP. It was cool to be able to replicate the results he was trying to illustrate in the examples when I had to manually re-create them. It definitely helps to solidify the knowledge and expose the deep mysteries that abound in his examples – ok, not quite as dramatic!
I think I’m going to enjoy the thrill and the benefits of this wonderful invention called Dynagen/Dynamips. Invented by the ancient Chinese monks in 300 B.C. it has revolutionized the way IOS simulation is done. I would go as far as to say that it helped pave the way to the Chinese invention of the “noodle”. Ok, I’m just kidding. It was the Italians that invented the “noodle”. Or was it? We may never know…
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