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<p>I heard good stuff about Cisco Virl. It's like an ESX for network
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2019-10-16 15:23, Jason Kuehl wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">I use the server version of GNS and I love it. I
just need to VPN into my DC and use my client to connect to GNS.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 2:22
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style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">EVE-NG is
also really good. Just an FYI, GNS3 went through a major
refresh about 18 months ago or so and it's so much better
now. Either way, you can't go wrong with GNS3 or EVE-NG.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at
11:18 AM Aaron Gould <<a href="mailto:aaron1@gvtc.com"
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,84,106)">Oh,
forgot the links…</span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,84,106)"><a
href="http://www.eve-ng.net/" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.eve-ng.net/</a></span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,84,106)"><a
href="http://www.eve-ng.net/documentation/howto-s" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.eve-ng.net/documentation/howto-s</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">From:</span></b><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> NANOG [mailto:<a
href="mailto:nanog-bounces@nanog.org"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">nanog-bounces@nanog.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Aaron Gould<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, October 16, 2019 1:14
PM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'Mike Bolitho'; 'Tom Beecher';
'Ryland Kremeier'<br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:nanog@nanog.org"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">nanog@nanog.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: Viability of GNS3 network
simulation for testing
features/configurations.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,84,106)">I’ve
used GNS3 some years ago for a lot of simulation
and testing. But, I’m blown away at how much more
I like EVE-NG (emulated virtual environment
next-gen)</span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,84,106)"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,84,106)">I
use the community free version… lots of vendor OS
support… of which, I’ve actually work with the
following….</span></p>
<p><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,84,106)"><span>-<span
style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,84,106)">XRv</span></p>
<p><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,84,106)"><span>-<span
style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,84,106)">IOS
virtual</span></p>
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style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,84,106)">vMX</span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,84,106)"><span>-<span
style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,84,106)">vSRX</span></p>
<p><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,84,106)"><span>-<span
style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,84,106)">vQFX</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,84,106)">…check
your in-box for a screen shot of my current
environment.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,84,106)">-Aaron</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">From:</span></b><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> NANOG [mailto:<a
href="mailto:nanog-bounces@nanog.org"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">nanog-bounces@nanog.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Mike Bolitho<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, October 16, 2019 12:02 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Tom Beecher<br>
<b>Cc:</b> <<a href="mailto:nanog@nanog.org"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">nanog@nanog.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Viability of GNS3 network
simulation for testing features/configurations.</span></p>
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style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Totally
agree with Tom here. It's going to work really
well for most things. But if you're testing
code for bugs you NEED to do it on the same
hardware you have in your environment in an
actual lab.</span></p>
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- Mike Bolitho</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 9:56
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<p class="MsoNormal">GNS3 can do a heck of a
lot, and the price is definitely right. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have used it
extensively for initial fleshing out of
designs or ideas, protocol nerding,
automation interaction testing, etc. There
certainly other tools out there, but being
able to visually draw a topology out,
connect the dots, and have an environment to
test in about 10 minutes is very nice. There
is an API you can hook into to do some of
that for you if you are so inclined, but
that would depend on your use case and
resources. For how I've used it, never been
required. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Some of the VMs from
vendors can be pretty CPU and/or RAM
intensive, so I've had the best experience
running them all on a dedicated server, not
locally. Again, use case dependent. For code
testing I would always run the test set on
hardware as well for likely obvious
reasons. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If you really get into
the weeds with it you can do quite a lot.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at
11:52 AM Ryland Kremeier <<a
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target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">rkremeier@barryelectric.com</a>>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m currently in
the process of setting up a near
identical network to our own in GNS3
for testing purposes. Has anyone here
tried this before to any success? We
need to buy the Cisco IOSv image to
continue with the sim so I figured I
would inquire here first before diving
in.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">All info is
appreciated,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ryland Kremeier</p>
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Jason W Kuehl<br>
Cell 920-419-8983<br>
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