Real Switches with Dynamips routers?

kingpinofdisks

I was wondering how well dynamips and real switches get along? What works, what doesn't work?

Any particular OS or NIC needed?

Mrock4

I haven't done it yet, but I have been interested in this, so here's a few articles I've found:

http://www.internetworkpro.org/wiki/Dynamips_w/_real_switches

http://forum.internetworkexpert.com/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/21106/page/1 - Random post with some good info..

http://www.dynagen.org/tutorial.htm - "Communicating with real networks" section applies, not only to adding real switches, but adding hosts via VMWare, or using your actual physical interfaces.