1.Download vpcs from here VPCS 0.20a

2.Extract and look for vpcs32.linux(for 32-bit systems) and vpcs64.linux (for 64-bit systems)

3.Fire up the Terminal and issue following command 
chmod +x vpcs32.linux

4.Then we'll open and configure startup.vpc in gedit

gedit startup.vpc

 

Today I’ll show you how to add graphical host in GNS3 using Qemu. We’ll be using tinycore which is based on Linux 2.6 kernel, Busybox, Tiny X, and Fltk. Tiny Core includes ssh, iptables, iproute, tcpdump and IPv6 support. It is quite well integrated and doesn't require much tuning. This is a graphical version of Microcore linux image, we used in previous tutorial  Add Qemu host in GNS3 .

Setup image for Qemu host

• Identifier: tiny_core
• image: local path to linux-tinycore-2.11.5.img
• Memory: 64 MB
• NIC: e1000
• Qemu options: -no-acpi

Watch Tinycore in Action here.




Happy Learning

What is the Vyatta ?

Vyatta is bringing innovation and affordability to the networking industry by delivering advanced routing and security in a software-based network OS that scales from the branch office to the service provider edge. Vyatta has decoupled networking software from proprietary hardware allowing users to leverage the price and performance advantages of standard x86-based hardware and components as well as Citrix XenServer and VMWare virtual or cloud environments.

# This file is sourced by update-grub, and its variables are propagated
# to its children in /etc/grub.d/

GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_TIMEOUT=0
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600n8″

# Uncomment to disable graphical terminal (grub-pc only)
GRUB_TERMINAL=serial
GRUB_SERIAL_COMMAND=”serial –speed=9600 –unit=0 –word=8 –parity=no –stop=1″

# Uncomment if you don’t want GRUB to pass “root=UUID=xxx” parameter to Linux
#GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true

You can find some user based support on the Freenode network of IRC.

Server: irc.freenode.com

Channels:

#gns3: Focuses on support for the GNS3 product (bugs, recommendations, complaints)

#gns3-labs: Aimed to help with labs and trade topologies.. Not an official GNS3 support channel.

GNS3-Labs Facebook Page

GNS3 Official Site

GNS3 Wiki

GNS3 Technical Blog

GNS3 Forums

Dynamips Tutorial: Dynagen is a front-end for use with the Dynamips Cisco router emulator

Dynamips

7200emu.hacki.at: A forum for everything GNS3, Dynamips, Dynagen and overall help.

BlindHog.net: Great website with videos, configs and files on setting up working labs with some troubleshooting and testing exercises.

BrainBump: This website is dedicated for helping those who are working towards achieving their CCIE.Personally, The author is working towards CCIE voice and this blog will help those who are pursuing Voice/Security/RS CCIE’s.

• Need help installing GNS3 on Windows XP?
• A new tutorial for GNS3 0.5 is available here (highly recommended for beginners). OUTDATED
• Need help installing GNS3 on a Linux platform?

   

• Video tutorials

  Beginners

• Internet LAB Tutorial Part 2
• Installation Tutorial for Linux
• How to build an Internet Lab
• GNS3 Graphical router emulation software
• Switching lab Part 2 (router on a stick)

•  

Switching

• How to build a switching lab Part 1
• How to install and enable ASDM (PIX firewall) using GNS3
• How to configure IOS IPS (Intrusion Prevention System) using SDM in GNS3
• How to use Pemu as your personal firewall
• How to communicate with Pemu
• Pemu PIX emulator with GNS3

   

• Voice

• How to build a voice lab with GNS3 and VMWare
• How to use a third party SIP phone with Cisco routers using GNS3
• How to setup Call Manager Express (CME) router using GNS3
• How to configure Cisco Unified Call Manager Express GUI using GNS3
• How to configure Cisco Unified Call Manager Express (CUCME) router for XML Services
• How to register third party SIP phone to Cisco Unified Call Manager Express (CUCME)
• How to setup CME SIP trunk to VoIP SIP Service Provider Part 1
  
• How to save labs with router configs
• How to build a frame-relay lab
• How to integrate a Microsoft Loopback interface with GNS3
• How to use Putty for console access
• How to use Putty Connection Manager for console access

   

• Misc

• How to setup and install Cisco Security Device Manager (SDM) on router using GNS3
• How to setup and configure Cisco Configuration Professional (CCP)
• How to lockdown Cisco Router’s Configuration Access
• How to configure and setup IPv6 connectivity between Windows XP and Cisco Router
• How to run multi-pc topology using distributed hypervisors in GNS3

These are links to videos created by Timw of hacki.at. Timw is a helpful guy on the forums over there and took time to create some videos on configuring VMWare to work with Dynamips/Dynagen & GNS3. In one of the Videos he also teaches you how to setup a simple frame-relay lab.

 Video 1: VMWare Server Network Setup

Setting up a virtual network in VMWare Server for use with Dynamips, Dynagen and GNS3

http://www.4shared.com/file/40989090/6e056245/VMWare_Server_Network_Setup.html

 Video 2: Frame Relay

How to use GNS3 to setup a Frame relay network using 2 routers and 2 virtual machines running in VMWare Server on a local work station.

http://www.4shared.com/file/40874613/803e59ec/Frame_Relay.html

 Video 3: VMWare Server Network Setup 2

Shows how to create a virtual network adapter and then connect it to a Virtual machine using VMWare Server. After that it shows how to connect the Network Adapter to a cloud in GNS3.

http://www.4shared.com/file/41078214/19a152f2/VMWare_Server_Network_Setup2.html

 Video 4: Saving Configs in GNS3

How to save your router configs in GNS3.

http://www.4shared.com/file/50577485/d99a2f50/GNS3_Save_Configs.html

Labs & videos created by Timw @ 7200emu.hacki.at

Here are instructions to install GNS3 from the sources on Mac os X. You will have to install or compile dependencies like Qt, Sip and PyQt. This will allow you to use the latest development version of GNS3 that you can download from http://code.gns3.net.

Method 1

• Install the Apple Devs Tools (on your Mac OS X DVD or download it on ADC account). Run and install XcodeTools.mpkg.

• Download Python 2.6 for MacOS X and install it.

• Download Qt libraries for Mac and install them.

• Download SIP, open a terminal and go in the folder where you downloaded the tar file and compile using the following commands (example for SIP 4.9.3):
  

Macintosh:$  tar xvzf sip-4.9.3.tar.gz
Macintosh:$  cd sip-4.9.3
Macintosh:sip-4.9.3$  python configure.py
Macintosh:sip-4.9.3$  make
Macintosh:sip-4.9.3$  make install

• Download PyQt and run the following commands to decompress and compile PyQt (example for PyQt 4.6.2):

Macintosh:$  tar xvzf PyQt-mac-gpl-4.6.2.tar.gz
Macintosh:$  cd PyQt-mac-gpl-4.6.2
Macintosh:PyQt-mac-gpl-4.6.2$  python configure.py
Macintosh:PyQt-mac-gpl-4.6.2$  make
Macintosh:PyQt-mac-gpl-4.6.2$  make install

• Download GNS3 source from here or the development version and start the script named gns3.

Method 2

• Download and install Mac Ports (you will need the Apple Devs Tools).

• Open a terminal and install GNS3 dependencies.

Macintosh:$ sudo port install python26
Macintosh:$ sudo port install python_select
Macintosh:$ sudo python_select python26
Macintosh:$ sudo port install py26-sip
Macintosh:$ sudo port install py26-pyqt4
Macintosh:$ sudo port install qt4-mac

• Download GNS3 source from here or the development version and start the script named gns3.

Notes about Mac Ports

Macintosh:$ sudo port install py26-sip @4.9.3_0
Macintosh:$ sudo port install py26-pyqt4 @4.6.2_0
Macintosh:$ sudo port install qt4-mac @4.5.3_0

Overview

 

Download Microcore Linux Qemu image

Setup image for Qemu host

• Go to Edit | Preferences | Qemu | Qemu Host
• Setup new image with following properties

  Identifier: MicrocoreBinary image: local path to linux-microcore-2.10.imgMemory: 64 MBNIC: e1000Qemu options: -no-acpi

• Press Save and just added image will appear into Qemu Host images list

Create topology and drop Qemu host on workspace

Start and Configure R1

Current configuration : 946 bytes

!

upgrade fpd auto

version 12.4

service timestamps debug datetime msec

service timestamps log datetime msec

no service password-encryption

!

hostname R1

!

boot-start-marker

boot-end-marker

!

logging message-counter syslog

enable password cisco

!

aaa new-model

!

!

aaa authentication login SSH-LOGIN local

!

!

aaa session-id common

ip source-route

ip cef

!

!

!

!

ip domain name cisco.com

no ipv6 cef

!

multilink bundle-name authenticated

!

!

username cisco password 0 cisco

archive

log config

  hidekeys

!

!

interface Loopback0

ip address 192.168.0.1 255.255.255.0

!

interface FastEthernet0/0

ip address 10.10.10.1 255.255.255.0

duplex half

!

ip forward-protocol nd

no ip http server

no ip http secure-server

!

control-plane

!

gatekeeper

shutdown

!

!

line con 0

stopbits 1

line aux 0

stopbits 1

line vty 0 4

password cisco

login authentication SSH-LOGIN

transport input telnet ssh

!

end

Start Qemu host and assign ip address and default gateway

• Start Qemu Host by right clicking and pressing Start button Qemu window will open
• Assign IP address for eth0 interface using command:

sudo su
ifconfig eth0 10.10.10.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 up

• To verify what ip address eth0 interface has use following command

ifconfig eth0

• You can also set hostname to host using hostname command:

hostname Qemu1

Try to reach directly connected network

• Try to ping router (10.10.10.1) stop by pressing CRTL + C.

Setup default gateway to reach remote networks

Using telnet and SSH

Making IP-address and default gateway persistent

• To make settings persistent do following:

sudo su
vi /opt/bootlocal.sh

• Add follwing lines to the file:

hostname Qemu1
ifconfig eth0 10.10.10.2/24
route add default gw 10.10.10.1

• Save file:
  • Press Esc
  • Type :wq!

• Run following command:

/usr/bin/filetool.sh backup

Running multiple host simultaneously

Using console connection

After successful installation of GNS3, we will install loopback adapter on our Ubuntu, Centos, Redhat and Fedora systems, so that we can telnet into your routers.

Loopback tap installation on Ubuntu
user@admin-desktop:~$ sudo –i
root@ admin-desktop:~#apt-get install uml-utilities
root@ admin-desktop:~#modprobe tun
root@ admin-desktop:~#tunctl             This will create loopback interface tap0
root@ admin-desktop:~#ifconfig tap0 10.100.100.100 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
root@ admin-desktop:~#ifconfig            verify that tap0 is up and given ip is assigned.


If you want to add one more loopback interface
root@ admin-desktop:~#tunctl             This will create loopback interface tap1
root@ admin-desktop:~#ifconfig tap1 10.100.101.100 netmask 255.255.255.0 up

********************************************************************************
 
Loopback tap installation on Centos/Redhat/Fedora
We need tunctl which is not available in our local repositories. So we’ll have to add RPMForge repository. Steps to add this repo is given here
http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge (Steps are the same for other 2 distros as well)

Ok lets install tunctl

[user@admin ~]$ su
Password: (Type in your root password here)
[root@admin /]# yum install tunctl
[root@admin /]# modprobe tun
[root@admin /]# cd /usr/sbin
[root@admin sbin]#./tunctl           This will create loopback interface tap0
[root@admin sbin]# /sbin/ifconfig tap0 10.100.100.100 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
[root@admin sbin]# /sbin/ ifconfig     verify that tap0 is up and given ip is assigned.

If you want to add one more loopback interface
[root@admin sbin]#./tunctl                 This will create loopback interface tap1
[root@admin sbin]# /sbin/ifconfig tap1 10.100.101.100 netmask 255.255.255.0 up

Change the ip with ifconfig according to your requirement.


Run GNS3 with root privileges, or you won’t be able to add these tap interfaces to GNS3.
Fire up GNS3


Drag the cloud onto the work-board and right click on it, Select Configure. Then Select NIO TAP, type tap0, press Add. Click Apply & ok. Now connect it to your router. 

 Important: Add these lines to iptables

sudo iptables -I INPUT -j ACCEPT -i tap0
sudo iptables -I OUTPUT -j ACCEPT -o tap0

So here is how to install GNS3 on Ubuntu.

These steps works for Ubuntu 9.10, 10.04lts and 10.10.


Lets Begin

After successful installation of GNS3 on Centos/Fedora/Redhat, we'll now compile/patch qemu from the source and then extract initrd and kernel files from ASA(asa802-k8.bin) to use with Qemu.

IMP:::This tutorial is based upon the assumption that you have installed GNS3 under /opt/GNS3, Please check here .

First I'll show you Qemu Patch/Compilation part .
First we'll have to install dependencies
[user@admin ~]$ su

Password: (Type in your root password here)

[root@admin /]# yum install ncurses ncurses-devel zlib zlib-devel SDL SDL-devel libpcap libpcap-devel

Let's download and compile Qemu
[root@admin /]#cd /opt/GNS3/

[root@admin GNS3]#wget http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/qemu/qemu-0.11.0.tar.gz

[root@admin GNS3]#tar xvzf qemu-0.11.0.tar.gz

[root@admin GNS3]#cd qemu-0.11.0

[root@admin qemu-0.11.0]#wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gns-3/qemu-0.11.0-olive.patch?download

[root@admin qemu-0.11.0]#patch -p1 -i qemu-0.11.0-olive.patch

[root@admin qemu-0.11.0]#./configure --target-list=i386-softmmu

[root@admin qemu-0.11.0]#make

[root@admin qemu-0.11.0]#make install

We are done with Qemu compilation, next is ASA.
[root@admin qemu-0.11.0]#cd ..

[root@admin GNS3]#cd IOS

[root@admin IOS]#mkdir ASA

[root@admin IOS]#chmod o+rw -R ./ASA

[root@admin IOS]#cd ASA

[root@admin ASA]#

now download and move if you need pre-configured files asa802-k8.bin leave a comment below along with your e-mail id I'll send the files ASAP or you can google 4 it to this ASA folder.

::coloured coded text is the output of the command::
[root@admin ASA]#hexdump -C asa802-k8.bin > asa802-k8.hex

[root@admin ASA]#grep '1f 8b 08 00 1d' asa802-k8.hex
001228b0 1f 8b 08 00 1d 3d 73 46 00 03 ec 3a 6d 54 14 57 |.....=sF...:mT.W|

[root@admin ASA]#ls -la asa802-k8.bin
-rwxrwxrwx 1 cyberwiz cyberwiz 14524416 Jun 25 18:48 asa802-k8.bin

[root@admin ASA]#echo "14524416 ; ibase=16 ; last - 1228B0" | bc | tail -n 1
13334352

[root@admin ASA]#tail -c 13334352 asa802-k8.bin > asa802-k8.gz

[root@admin ASA]#gzip -d asa802-k8
gzip: asa802-k8.gz: decompression OK, trailing garbage ignored

[root@admin ASA]#mkdir tmp ; cd tmp

[root@admin tmp]#cpio -i --no-absolute-filenames --make-directories < ../asa802-k8
cpio: Removing leading `/' from member names
cpio: Removing leading `/' from member names
61039 blocks

[root@admin tmp]#cp vmlinuz ../asa802-k8.kernel

[root@admin tmp]#cd asa/scripts/

[root@admin scripts]#gedit first_start.sh

Now copy and paste the following in the gedit:

#!/bin/sh

##
## Author: Jeremy Grossmann (2009)
## Contributor: J. Pedro Flor (28 january 2010)
##

FIRST_START=no
if test ! -e /mnt/disk0/lina_monitor
then
cd /asa/scripts/
echo "d" > /asa/scripts/fdisk.pf.in
echo "o" >> /asa/scripts/fdisk.pf.in
echo "n" >> /asa/scripts/fdisk.pf.in
echo "p" >> /asa/scripts/fdisk.pf.in
echo "1" >> /asa/scripts/fdisk.pf.in
echo "1" >> /asa/scripts/fdisk.pf.in
echo ""  >> /asa/scripts/fdisk.pf.in
echo "t" >> /asa/scripts/fdisk.pf.in
echo "4" >> /asa/scripts/fdisk.pf.in
echo "w" >>/asa/scripts/fdisk.pf.in

echo ""
echo -n "Initializing partition..."
/sbin/fdisk /dev/hda < /asa/scripts/fdisk.pf.in > /dev/null 2> /dev/null
echo "done"

echo ""
echo -n "Formating and mounting partition..."
mkdosfs -F 16 /dev/hda1 > /dev/null 2> /dev/null
mount -t vfat -o umask=0000,noatime,check=s,shortname=mixed /dev/hda1 /mnt/disk0 > /dev/null 2> /dev/null
echo "done"
echo ""

cp /asa/bin/lina /mnt/disk0/lina
cp /asa/bin/lina_monitor /mnt/disk0/lina_monitor
FIRST_START=yes
fi

# load drivers
modprobe e100
modprobe e1000
ifconfig eth0 up
ifconfig eth1 up
ifconfig eth2 up
ifconfig eth3 up
ifconfig eth4 up
ifconfig eth5 up

if test $FIRST_START = yes
then
echo ""
echo "          Cisco ASA with Multiple Security Contexts"
echo "          =============================================="
echo ""
echo "This is your first boot, please wait about 2 minutes for 'disk0' creation"
echo "and then execute the following commands inside the Linux prompt:"
echo ""
echo " # cd /mnt/disk0"
echo " # /mnt/disk0/lina_monitor"
echo ""
echo ""
echo ""
echo "Please note to use the following command under ASA to save your configs:"
echo ""
echo " ciscoasa(config)# boot config disk0:/.private/startup-config"
echo " ciscoasa(config)# copy running-config disk0:/.private/startup-config"
echo ""
echo ""
echo ""
echo "To get webvpn working, execute the following commands:"
echo ""
echo " ciscoasa# mkdir disk0:/var"
echo " ciscoasa# mkdir disk0:/var/log"
echo " ciscoasa# mkdir disk0:/csco_config"
echo " ciscoasa# mkdir disk0:/csco_config/97"
echo " ciscoasa# mkdir disk0:/csco_config/97/webcontent"
echo ""
echo "          ( Powered by Pedro Flor )"
echo "          ( pedro.flor@gmail.com  )"
echo ""
exit
fi

echo ""
echo ""
echo "Starting Cisco ASA with Multiple Security Contexts..."
echo ""

cd /mnt/disk0
/mnt/disk0/lina_monitor


Save and close gedit.

[root@admin scripts]#chmod 755 first_start.sh

[root@admin scripts]#cd ../../etc/init.d/

[root@admin init.d]#gedit rcS

Comment out the lina_monitor line and add /asa/scripts/first_start.sh, it should look like.
#!/bin/sh
#------------------------------------------------------------------
# Copyright (c) 2006, 2007 by Cisco Systems, Inc.
# All rights reserved.
#------------------------------------------------------------------

export MOUNT_OPTS=umask=0000,noatime,check=s,posix,shortname=mixed
/bin/sh -c /etc/init.d/rcS.common

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/mnt/disk0/lib:/mnt/disk0/lib

# launch our user space processes
#/asa/bin/lina_monitor
/asa/scripts/first_start.sh

Save and close gedit.

[root@admin init.d]#cd ../../

[root@admin tmp]#find . | cpio -o -H newc | gzip -9 > ../asa802-k8.initrd.gz
61045 blocks

Lets cleanup ASA folder(Optional)
[root@admin tmp]#cd ..

[root@admin ASA]#rm -rf asa802-k8 asa802-k8.hex asa802-k8.bin tmp/*

[root@admin ASA]#rmdir tmp

Qemu Settings.

LiSA , short for Linux Switching Appliance, is an open-source software project built for the GNU/Linux operating system that aims to provide its users with all the necessary instruments for implementing and maintaining an e ficient and reliable switching solution at a low cost.

The project was designed to be used in medium and small-sized networks. As opposed to usual hardware-driven implementations, LiSA offers a software approach to switching by utilizing the Linux Kernel networking stack and adding its own switch-speci c functionality.

Since LiSA is practically a software implementation of what normally is a hardware-based logic, it might seem that there is no advantage in using it. On the contrary, LiSA provides several bene ts that hardware implementations do not have.

Many of these advantages stem from the fact that it is based on the Linux operating system.
First of all this means it is not tied to a speci c hardware architecture. It is only limited to the architectures supported by Linux, of which we mention : ARM, x86, MIPS, PowerPC and many more2.
Secondly, it is not dependant on the network hardware. As long as there is a Linux device driver for the speci c NIC which LiSA is supposed to handle, no problems will be encountered.
Finally, Linux is well-known for its ability to run well on older systems and on embedded devices, that is, devices that have important resource constraints. This provides an advantage since one of LiSA's main objectives is to run on such devices.

The project will not compete with Cisco (we could not do that anyway ) but should provide a cost-effective advanced-featured solution for small networks.

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http://rapidshare.com/files/412464774/lisa-centos-2.0.2.part03.rar.html

Guys , I'm sharing with you FTP Direct Download links for Cisco IOS Images which can be used with GNS3 or actual routers.

Small Collection of IOS Images.

ftp://ftp.unikon-ua.net/pub/Cisco/IOS/

ftp://62.117.115.92/upload/ios/

ftp://86.110.172.101/Soft/IOS/

http://www.jonsfiles.com/IOS%20Images%20for%20GNS3/Cisco_IOS_Collection/IOS/

ftp://79.120.76.25/torrent/downloaded/ios/

So here is how to install GNS3 and have it work efficiently for your Cisco studying needs.

1. First we will install Dynagen and Python-Qt4

sudo apt-get install dynagen python-qt4

cd /opt
sudo wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/gns-3/GNS3/0.7/GNS3-0.7-

src.tar.bz2?use_mirror=softlayer
sudo tar -xjvf GNS3-0.7-src.tar.bz2 && rm GNS3-0.7-src.tar.bz2
sudo mv GNS3-0.7-src /opt/GNS3

cd /opt/GNS3
mkdir Dynamips
mkdir IOS
mkdir Project
mkdir Cache
mkdir tmp
chmod o+rw -R ./Project
chmod o+rw -R ./tmp

cd Dynamips
sudo wget http://www.ipflow.utc.fr/dynamips/dynamips-0.2.8-RC2-x86.bin
sudo chmod +x ./dynamips-0.2.8-RC2-x86.bin

python "/opt/GNS3/gns3"

gnome-terminal -t %d -e 'telnet %h %p' > /dev/null 2>&1 &

/opt/GNS3/Project

/opt/GNS3/IOS

/opt/GNS3/Dynamips/dynamips-0.2.8-RC2-x86.bin

/opt/GNS3/tmp

/opt/GNS3/Project