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Mikdilly

Would a 3640 be good to use in Dynamips as practice for the ccna?

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Rearden

Sure would. I used it almost exclusively

Darthn3ss

this is offtopic but since his question is basically answered, why not?

how come there are currently no (atleast, that i know of) switch emulators like dynamips is for routers? would the computer resources required be too much or what?

just wondering since routers are fairly cheap to come by, but a switch for CCNA/CCNP is the most expensive thing.. specially for CCNP.

dtlokee

The short answer is that switches do much of the work in hardware not through the processor. Without the specfic code used by Cisco to make the hardware it would be difficult to do what dynamips has accomplished with the router platforms. I have heard of a switch sim that Cisco has internally but it's not for outside use.

Mikdilly

Does anyone have a .net file I could use with the 3640 for setting up frame relay?

Rearden

dtlokee wrote:

The short answer is that switches do much of the work in hardware not through the processor. Without the specfic code used by Cisco to make the hardware it would be difficult to do what dynamips has accomplished with the router platforms. I have heard of a switch sim that Cisco has internally but it's not for outside use.

Hit the nail on the head there. ASICs are damn near impossible to emulate through software. For starters, it's very hard to even know the specs to be emulated, since manufacturers often do not disclose them.

Mikdilly

Will Dynamips work on windows Vista?