Hey everyone, so I am broke as you can be. So to study and practice for my CCNA I have to use GNS3 and other free emulation softwares. Someone suggested some good cheap cisco equipment in my last post but I just couldn't afford them along with other things I would need to have a good physical lab.
So I come with a question to help my studies as well as my wallet. I am to the point that I need to have hosts and servers in my network. I have Oracle VirtualBox so I attempted to use the VirtualBox guest thing on GNS3 but I can't get the OS to ping with the router or vis versa. I have followed many tutorials all coming up with some problem of some sort. My first attempt was to get a tftp server in my network. I am currently running Ubuntu 13.04 on my laptop. I had Ubuntu 12.04 on VM and created a tap0 interface but I couldn't get it to connect to the tftp program on that VM. My first attempt was this youtube video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l43OG3zVGFE which isn't exactly right so I had to figure out some of the parts on my own.
My second attempt was using this tftp server program set up:
How do I install and run a TFTP server? - Ask Ubuntu and this loopback tutorial:
My Home Lab: Add Loopbacks in Ubuntu for GNS3 Okay well with that the connection kept disconnecting in the Ubuntu VM. I couldn't get it to stay connected.
Well I gave up on tftp because it's not that hard to remember the process for backing up and restoring configs with a tftp server. But I would like to be able to use a host in GNS3 to do the labs properly. I tried the GNS3 documentation here:
VirtualBox - GNS3 but this is where I couldn't get a successful ping.
Anyone have any clue? I have googled more than I can even count. Thank you in advance!
