problems installing dynamips

dula

I am currently studying for CCNA and I plan to use dynamips for practise.

I am following a tutorial on how to set up dynamips. Part of the steps requires me to get a Cisco IOS 12.04 from Cisco website but I don't have a cisco customer account.

Is there anyway of going around this.



Cheers,
dula

mikej412

The legal way is

mikej412 wrote:

You'd be looking for a SmartNet Contract.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/ordering/

If you choose the Purchase Through an Online Partner and select your geographic area, you can then do searches for "smartnet" and your product model number to get an idea of the confusing array of options available. If you sort by price, lowest first, then you're probably closer to contracts that give you the software upgrade capabilities. For some of the contract prices at the high end I'd expect a CCIE living in a trailer outside my house 24/7 with a semi-trailer full of spare parts.

Once you figure out all the confusing options and find the software upgrade smartnet contracts, you can google to see if you can find other online partners that could offer you a better deal on the price.

But if you don't have a router to put under a SmartNet Contract.... or an old router that is no longer supported -- then officially you are out of luck.

This thread also talks about the "IOS Issue".... but none of them are really legal....
http://www.techexams.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=23006

oops -- posted the wrong thread initially.....
http://www.techexams.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=21655 is The future of Cisco IOS images.

And while I'm back.... IOS for switches can be downloaded from Cisco for free -- check out the IOS Versions and Feature Set Information thread

If you buy a router off of eBay and it comes with an IOS image -- it is not a legal copy since you don't have a license for it. If you copy that IOS image to another router of the same type -- you now have two copies that aren't licensed..... but you do have two working routers that are good for studying with.

mikej412

I fix the link above...

Darthn3ss

not to encourage illegal activity here but:

if you buy a router or switch from ciscokits, they'll send you a disk with it that includes some handy tools (ie, tftp server, terminal emulation software, etc) as well as a bunch of labs and study tips, and instructions for password recovery and ios upgrade on various routers and switches. oh, and it comes with a few IOSes as well.

ignign0kt

Seems like dynamips is too much of a hassle... is it really that much better than Boson?

Paul Boz

ignign0kt wrote:

Seems like dynamips is too much of a hassle... is it really that much better than Boson?

Boson is a buggy piece of crap that costs a lot of money. Dynamips actually emulates cisco hardware and runs legitimate, real copies of IOS. Would you rather study with a relatively free utility that's significantly more realistic to actual hardware, or spend a ton of money on a buggy IOS emulator that doesn't even support a fraction of the IOS commands available now? Dynamips is only a hassle if you're too impatient to sit down and learn how to run it.