What is Cisco IOU? Before we explain how to install Cisco IOU on GNS3 VM, let’s mention that what is Cisco IOU? The expansion of the Cisco IOU is IOS on Unix / Linux. In short, they are Cisco IOS running on Unix and Linux operating systems.
Cisco IOU functions are similar to Dynamips, but Cisco IOU uses fewer resources. In Dynamips we can simulate Cisco Router, Switch, we can add the same devices in IOU structure. The use of Cisco IOS on Unix is designed for experimental purposes by Cisco employees. Distribution and duplication of Cisco IOU images on customers or on any platform are strictly prohibited.
The biggest advantage of using Cisco IOU is that you can make much bigger network designs than Dynamips. With the IOU, you can achieve even higher performance gains by installing a virtual machine on an external disk. And also, you do not have to fill your computer’s storage with GNS3 images and projects. Our recommendation; Using in a are healthier and more efficient. But in today’s Internet age everything is available.
You can get these images by doing some research on the Internet. We apologize for not sharing these IOS images in this post. You can purchase “” from Amazon. What is GNS3 VM? Initially, the GNS3 was simulating Cisco IOS images with Dynamips. In the course of time, while working on larger network designs, Dynamips has sought a solution due to its high resource utilization. And now, with the GNS3 Server on the virtual machine, less resource utilization has been reached.
One of the greatest advantages the process to install Cisco IOU on GNS3 VM benefits from Cisco’s advanced Switching capabilities. You can create and try more VLANs.
GNS3 VM can easily add as an import in the VMware Workstation infrastructure, or we can easily configure Cisco IOU settings. You can download the programs required to install Cisco IOU on GNS3 VM 1.5.4 from above buttons. Once you have unzipped the GNS3 VM, double click on it. Step 2 After the VMware Workstation program is opened, click the Import button to add the GNS3 OVA file to the virtual machine.
Step 3 GNS3 VM VMware Workstation added to the virtual machine, you need to wait a while. Step 4 GNS3 OVA added to the virtual machine.
Now, run the virtual machine. Step 5 GNS3 VM is the first boot image. Step 6 GNS3 VM is opening Step 7 In the GNS3 IOU VM integration process looks like the image below after starting. Here we will configure using the GNS3 VM Ip address.
Press the Enter key on the OK option. Step 8 On the GNS3 VM configuration screen, press the Enter key on the Shell (Open a console) option. Step 9 In the GNS3 IOU VM installation, you will need the license file to install the IOS from your GNS3 Server. Here, some points blurred during licensing. As mentioned above, the distribution of Cisco IOU images strictly prohibited. Given that you have Cisco IOU images, use the commands in the following image to look at the license file in the GNS3 root folder to use Cisco IOU images.
code:$ sudo su:/home/gns3# ls /code If you want to install GNS3 on Ubuntu, you can read the article called ““. Step 10 To access the GNS3 VM root folder, we will use the WinSCP program. After you open the WinSCP program, type in the GNS3 VM Ip address.
Next, type gns3 in the user name and password, and then press the Login button. Step 11 Click on the Yes button in the WinSCP program security warning. Step 12 As you can see in the following image, we are in the / home / gns3 / root folder. Copy the license file here. Step 13 Click on the OK button to complete the operation.
Step 14 Our license file copied to the GNS3 VM root directory. Step 15 Go back to the GNS3 VM virtual machine and run the command file at the command prompt with the command python3 CiscoIOUKeygen.py.
Next, you need to add the generated license number to the iourc.txt file. Step 16 On the desktop, create a text document named iourc.txt, and then enter and save the values as shown in the following image. To do the basic configuration of the Cisco Switch, you can read the topic called ““. Step 17 Copy the iourc.txt file that you created into the GNS3 VM virtual machine location. Step 18 We have completed the most important steps to install Cisco IOU on GNS3 VM 1.5.4. Now run the GNS3 program.
After opening GNS3, select Local GNS3 VM and click Next. Step 19 On the next screen, select VMware (Recommend), the GNS3 Server will automatically scan and the information will add. Click Next to continue. Step 20 It is connecting to GNS3 Server Step 21 Before adding the Cisco IOU on the GNS3 Server, close the window as shown below. Step 22 To complete the GNS3 IOU license process, follow the Edit / Preferences path.
Step 23 In the window that opens, select IOS on UNIX and click the Browse button to add the iourc file in the right pane. Step 24 From the GNS3 VM virtual machine location, select the iourc.txt file and click the Open button. What is VPCS on GNS3?
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How to use VPCS? For the answer to the question, read the article called ““. Step 25 After adding the iourc file, click the Apply button to save the settings. Step 26 In the GNS3 Preferences window, click IOU Devices and then click the New button to add Layer 2 and Layer 3 Switches. Step 27 In the Server window that opens, click on the Next button. Step 28 Enter the Layer 2 Switch name you want to add, then click the Browse button. In the Type section, specify the Switch layer.
Step 29 Select and add the Layer 2 Switch image. Step 30 Adding GNS3 VM Layer 2 Switch is complete. Click the Finish button. Step 31 The Layer 2 Switch successfully add as shown in the following image. Now click the New button again to add a Layer 3 Switch. Step 32 Click on the Next button.
Step 33 Enter the Layer 3 Switch name and specify its type. Then click the Browse button to add the IOS image. Step 34 Layer 3 Switch installed on the GNS3 Server.
Step 35 Adding GNS3 VM Layer 3 Switch successfully completed. Finish the process by clicking on the Finish button. Step 36 Click the OK button to close the window. Step 37 Add one Layer 2 Switch and one Layer 3 Switch to the GNS3 workspace. Then, run Cisco Switches.
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Step 38 In the Layer 2 Switch console window, for example, we created one VLAN. Step 39 When we apply the show vlan command on a Layer 2 Switch, we can see that the Switch works successfully. How to backup Cisco IOS image to TFTP? For the answer to the question, you can read the article called ““. How to Install Cisco IOU on GNS3 VM? ⇒ Video You can watch how to install Cisco IOU on GNS3 VM 1.5.4 and then subscribe to our YouTube channel Final Word How to Install Cisco IOU on GNS3 VM? – In short, it is better to run Cisco IOU IOS images on the GNS3 Server.
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Robert5205 wrote: If your goal is to run GNS3, then you need to get the IOS images in an appropriate way. But, if you're trying to work with a lab setup, consider getting the actual physical gear.
There are a lot of switches, routers, and firewalls out there that, although not the latest, are still quite functional. And they're available inexpensively or even free.
Buying used gear is most often technically just as illegal as grabbing the images from some file sharing site because the licenses are not transferable. That said, I carefully reviewed the license for the software that makes my car work and it's not transferable either so in some cases buying a used car is just as illegal (technically - no court would ever entertain that you did something illegal with regard to software licensing in buying a used car). I expect the automobile manufacturer's lawyer wasn't a software licensing specialist and used a lot of boiler plate text from somewhere else without actually realizing the real implications. Of course there are dozens of Cisco re-sellers that sell used gear and those that do it the official Cisco way (sending the equipment back to Cisco for official re-licensing and charging again for the licensing) are obviously at a serious pricing disadvantage. I don't know of any cases of Cisco taking legal action to enforce their intellectual property rights against a re-seller and I'd be very surprised if they took exception to someone using their software in a 'virtual' GNS3 environment. If the software images do come from anywhere other than the official Cisco software repository (including preinstalled on used gear) you really need to check the MD5 signature against the official Cisco version.
There have been reports of compromised IOS images making the rounds. I wonder what does harm and what does good from Cisco's perspective. Does Cisco come down hard on the little guy trying to get his CCNA?
That little guy is going to pay for his CCNA (and maybe a CCNP) and chances are he'll be drinking at least some of the Cisco kool-aid for the rest of his networking life. I'll bet Cisco bank on getting more sales from 'on-boarding' Cisco acolytes than they would if they were seen to be harsh with people who, at the end of the day are likely to recommend and use MORE Cisco kit and not less. The same goes for the 'un-official' re-sellers. At the end of the day if a business (or whatever) buys a bit of Cisco gear, who is going to be making money? Chances are Cisco are in for a 'windfall' somewhere along the line whether it's a licence/feature upgrade, a module or WIC purchase or (now that the business has taken the Cisco plunge) they buy new gear from an actual Cisco re-seller with all the bells and whistles. And lets be clear, I do not condone illegal file sharing of any kind but come on, lets elevate the thinking beyond the actual small print and live in the real world.
I firmly believe Cisco turns a blind eye to a lot of this 'grey market' activity in pursuit of the greater (for them) good. Doesn't do us Cisco engineers who need lab gear any harm either. All in all I think if Cisco were to start firing law suits across the globe to protect their IOS's (especially 'old' IOS's) would do them a great deal of harm indeed. 'Cisco even gives free ios updates you just have to write a email to tac with a show ver, then show them the vulnerability your facing and they want serial too to make Sure it's not stolen. Cisco has to update their equipment if there is a vulnerability it says so on their site. Solucionario calculo 2 victor chungara pdf. I have done it many times!' Has anyone else been brave and done the above?
Every single person even remotely resembling a networking professional that works with Cisco equipment has always said that your gray market switches and routers should never talk to the internet or they will 'phone home' and really bad things will happen. Like Loretta Lynch, Kamala Harris or Preet Bharara showing up at your door with an arrest warrant bad. Or Papa John himself showing up in that silly Domino's DXP delivery car with a Little Caesar's cheesy crust pizza bad. Text Every single person even remotely resembling a networking professional that works with Cisco equipment has always said that your gray market switches and routers should never talk to the internet or they will 'phone home' and really bad things will happen.
There must be thousands of companies offering Cisco training that have classrooms chock full of grey market gear. I've had a 'grey market' lab of about 20 bits of Cisco gear for over 10 years and it's ALL been 'on the internet' continuously for about 5 years. I am a Cisco CCNP so I do resemble a network engineer and indeed that is my job title.
Nothing bad has ever happened to me (well not at Cisco's hands at least.). And as I said earlier, I think Cisco are good deal more pragmatic and practical about this than the amateur lawyers among us. That said, recent changes to IOS and feature licencing mean it may be harder to copy an IOS images whilst retaining all the features. And the new Universal IOS images definitely have the capability to call home.
I don't think anything prior to 15.x has that capability with the exception of the ASA and I don't recall seeing any data leaving my network destined for Cisco that originated from any of my gear. Can't say the same for my LG TV though. They do call home with all sorts of 'interesting' information =:-o. Thankfully that was easy to block. Tbh, I was always skeptical of this school of thought and so I connected my equipment anyway (without incident I may add). Recently though, I had the bright idea to create some tunnels external to my network (for learning purposes) that would require I go through my ISP to get to the other end of a configured tunnel. While I could replicate that internally, I wanted to do things the hard and unnecessary way.
While coaxing my friend into joining my madness. At that point, I thought I would research for a minute to see what other people were saying about it and that is how I found this post (unsurprisingly) at Spiceworks.
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Thanks for the reply and sarcastic wit (of which I am a great fan).:-) Hopefully, this will dispel the myth for more people down the line when they find this thread.. I have a bunch of tunnels from my home to various sites I support for work. I use IPSEC over GRE because that keeps the communication secure, even from the ISP. To say nothing of the fact that for site to site communication across the public internet traffic should be encrypted as it is best practice. And even if the ISP could read my traffic (if I were using GRE without IPSEC the traffic would be in plain text) they aren't monitoring activity looking for and reporting Cisco licencing or copyright 'issues'.
If they're making it difficult, yet not impossible, for new network professionals to enter the industry, then the argument could be made that it's expected to jump through hoops and/or cheat to gain a foot in the door (so to speak). How do most people start off learning about CISCO? By paying exorbitant amounts of money for their training?
Yes, there are ways where one's company will pay for training. However, that assumes that the person has already gotten the training they need to land a job in the field. Once again, whether it's 'gray market' resellers or any other purveyors of IP-infringing tactics/methods, most people start off by somehow being directly or indirectly in violation of the license(s). Therefore, why would this legacy company, which had been somewhat of a defacto standard in the industry, not facilitate that point of entry for people interested enough to learn about their products? There is plenty of room to make additional profits even through expanded training. Sorry about the rant; I just find it odd, comical even, to see the same stories and experiences being discussed for years(decades?); and everyone is just looking away as if everything is perfectly fine 'as long as I got mine.' In any case, for those who may come across this post while searching how to get started with GNS3, take a look at QUOTEGNS3 has allowed network engineers to virtualize real hardware devices for over 10 years.
Originally only emulating Cisco devices using software called Dynamips, GNS3 has now evolved and supports many devices from multiple network vendors including Cisco virtual switches, Cisco ASAs, Brocade vRouters, Cumulus Linux switches, Docker instances, HPE VSRs, multiple Linux appliances and many others. Go here to see a list of appliances available: /QUOTE.
Kbr0125 wrote: Buying used gear is in no way breaking the law. Please google court case agaisnt cisco. Grey market gear is not illigal you just won't get support and it's frowned apon.
My Cisco sales rep. Definitely believes (or leads me to believe that he believes) that buying used gear is illegal because the license is not transferable. Obviously he has his own agenda which has to be taken into consideration. He clearly told me that the only way to purchase and use, used gear legally was to get it from Cisco as they are the only ones legally empowered to grant a right to use their software. Of course everyone is buying and selling used gear and if Cisco does have the right to take legal action and did so they would just be perceived as a bully.
Use.ova for GNS3-IOU instead of pre configured VM. We all may have heard the saying GNS3 is great for practicing routing labs but switching Nah Nah!! Don’t underestimate the power of GNS3. It has a special IOU feature which will let you emulate real Cisco Switch both L2 & L3 in GNS3 without any trouble. If you want to know what is an IOU?
Refer to this excellent article else follow along To configure IOU in GNS3 you will need the following files:. GNS3 (I used v1.2.3). Virtual Box.
GNS3 IOU VM (or.ova file available on ). L2 IOU image. L3 IOU image. License file For you to access them easily I am making all the “ rare files” available for you here: Let us now go through the step by step process to configure IOU in GNS3:. Install the GNS3-IOU.ova file in Virtual Box.
Make Sure you don’t have any older version of IOU installed in it. Start the VM. It may take a few moments to run at the first time. After it has started, you will note an IP address shown above the console screen.
In my case it was: 192.168.56.101:8000/upload where 192.168.56.101 was the IP of the VM which was the Host-Only adapter of the Virtual Box instance. Next open your web browser and go to. Select the L2 and L3 IOU image one by one and click on the upload button. The full path will be shown after uploading is completed.
Now open GNS3. Goto edit-preferences. Click IOS on Unix. Under path to IOURC put D: GNS3 IOU IOURC.txt (the location of IOURC.txt file). Next, goto GNS3 server-Remote server. Under host type – 192.168.56.101 and port 8000. Then click Apply-Ok.
Change host binding. (Very important). Now under IOU devices, Click New-Next-Ok-Give a name(like Switch IOU). Under IOU image paste the location which you have copied from the image upload screen. Select L2 or L3 depending on the type. Repeat step 9.
for the Router IOU image. Now simply drag your IOUs to your working area and create your switching lab.
Now let us test inter-vlan routing in this simple topology. Sample R1 Config: Sample SW1 Config: Final Testing: Cheers! Happy Switching ? Enjoyed this post?
I wouldn't get any of the IOU files from the flyxj image. At the very least the L2 image is severely flawed, it has a busted spanning-tree and ARP food issue that limits its usefullness, this could perhaps be related to the environment in which it is run though. However, there are other L2 IOU versions that are available on the net and which work very well.
One such image was just compiled in January 24th of this year. Search for the L2 IOU team track version. It's based on 15.1 of the IOS though.
For L3 there is a ADVENTERPRISEK9-M-15.2.3 image floating around as well.
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