These Switching labs includes:. Click on the download IOS image for gns3 for starting the downloading:. I hope this aricle is informative for your. Share your comments in comments sections. Thank you.. In our last articles, we learned the beauty of GNS3 to create complex routing labs.
However, networks are simply not complete without switches. Adding switches is not so easy, but it is definitely doable. In this article, we are going to give you a step-by-step tutorial on how to add Cisco switches to your GNS3 topology. Its simple purpose is to run the emulation of your devices in a centralized point: this saves you a lot of resources. As simple as that. Trust me, you are going to save tons of computational resources on this.
However, this is not all: you add support for L2 devices. Yes, this means you can have a manageable switch in your topology. In fact, it was developed by the same team and you can download it for free from their download page.
The download link for the VM is quite small, as in the picture below. However, in our last article, we have already used VirtualBox since it is the only free option we have. Therefore, you can simply select VirtualBox. Since this tutorial will show you the steps to do that with VirtualBox, you need to have it installed.
This download will give you a compressed file. You can simply un-zip it with our favorite tool like 7zip , and you will find an OVA file in it. OVA is a special file format that contains Virtual Appliances. Each file contains all the details for a virtual machine: its software, virtual disks, and resource settings.
It is like receiving a physical PC with all the needed software already on it. However, this is virtual: much simpler. As a result, you will see an orange box icon next to the file. Just double-click on the file to open it. This will open VirtualBox and launch the Import Wizard: a window that looks like the following one.
Here you can check all the settings, and eventually modify some. The import will last a few seconds, then you will have to click on Finish. And this is it. When starting, GNS3 will raise a pop-up asking to configure a local server: today we are going to do it, and get rid of that pop-up forever. You will be able to follow this tutorial anyway. Here, be sure that you have selected the first option: Run modern IOS , which should be the default.
Take a quick look at the following step by step GNS3 tutorials and start to learn from the beginning to advance GNS3 configurations. Please drop your queries in the comment box, if you face any issues. You may also provide your suggestions to improve the article. We would love to hear your valuable feedback too.
Please like and share the article, it will not cost you anything. God bless you all. I wan to work on ethernet switch in gns3 and i want to configure it by myself. Pleae tell me how i can do it or where i can find its image. How can we verify if this is legitimate?
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