GNS3 question_1

Aman_saini

I don't know whether I can explain or not.
I have created a lab in the GNS3 and was trying to connect GNS3 with
VMWARE(installed Ubuntu) and trying to introduce real network Traffic in the GNS3.
these thing made my laptop red hot and to counter this i came up with a idea to use orignal machine of linux OS and connect this new machine to my laptop and create a software bridge between lan and VMWARE so that i can pass original network traffic original OS and so that i can save CPU from burning.

Tell me i m right or i imagining things too much

NoteI can not afford real equipment)

martell1000

did you apply the IDLE PC function on the routers?

if you didnt cpu will run at 100% and that could make it nice and warm

Aman_saini

ya i had applied idle pc but i m using pix firewall in my lab which is using too much of my cpu usage thats why i m trying to introduce actual traffic from actual machine
i m going try it today hope it works so that i can save my computer

martell1000

running a virtual machine + gns3 might be a lil too much for a lot of laptop computers.

but if you shooting for ccna i can tell you packet tracer might just aswell do the trick.

anyways it is not very wise to put massive traffic into gns3 since the bandwith is VERY limited. i wouldnt shoot more traffic into it then a continious ping ...

Aman_saini

Actually i m making a project and was trying to make pis firewall and ios firewall so that i can secure my network but looking at the cpu usage it is difficult to start vmware side by side to attack my network or to check my network and Packet tracer is not capable of doing these things.

ok i will be very much conscious to not pass heavy traffic to gns3.

instant000

Aman_saini wrote: »

ya i had applied idle pc but i m using pix firewall in my lab which is using too much of my cpu usage thats why i m trying to introduce actual traffic from actual machine
i m going try it today hope it works so that i can save my computer

http://www.techexams.net/forums/ccsp/21194-got-pemu-work.html#post143454

Direct Link: BES, Battle Encoder Shirase 1.4.3: Controls Per-Process CPU Usage

Hope this helps!

Aman_saini

hmm thanx i will try this definitely