Lab Sims

Can anyone recommend a good solid Lab Sim program? I would love to use GNS3 but I cant get my hands on an IOS image without spending a lot of money. I have looked at used routers on ebay but have not found one yet with the IOS media. Any suggestions?

Thanks for the help I really appreciate it.

Kris

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okplaya

Most of the routers on Ebay will come with an IOS image.

As for labs, you could check out the official Cisco labs on their website.

HTH

alan2308

Yea, I've yet to buy a router or a switch that didn't have an IOS image on it.

Now, whether or not they were recent enough to be of use is another question, but there was something there.

mattau

alan2308 wrote: »

Yea, I've yet to buy a router or a switch that didn't have an IOS image on it.

Now, whether or not they were recent enough to be of use is another question, but there was something there.

lol. ill second that.

jtdk985

tons of good lab sims here, i had no idea this had so many uploads.

https://learningnetwork.cisco.com/groups/ccna-study-group?view=documents

here is the one im working through now..

https://learningnetwork.cisco.com/docs/DOC-11107

mattlee09

johnsonk wrote: »

not found one yet with the IOS media. Any suggestions?

I think his hangup is the "media" part. No router/switch comes with IOS media per se, you'll have to hook it up and offload the IOS by transferring it to a TFTP server running on your machine and using "copy tftp flash".