So here is how to install GNS3 and have it work efficiently for your Cisco studying needs. 1. First we will install Dynagen and Python-Qt4 ...
So here is how to install GNS3 and have it work efficiently for your Cisco studying needs.
1. First we will install Dynagen and Python-Qt4
3. Create the following directories:
These directories will be used by GNS3 – such as projects – where your working projects will be stored, cache, temp, IOS images, etc.
4. Download binary of dynamips and make it executable
You can create a desktop shortcut by right-clicking on the desktop and select “Create Launcher..”, Name it GNS3 and in the command section type in
Double click to open GNS3 and we will edit the default settings. If you don’t want to use desktop icons you can create a launcher from your programs menu by right clicking on the Main Menu, selecting Edit Menu. Select New Item on the right and you will be presented with the same window where you type in the above. From there you can move the launcher into any menu section of your choice.
5. Go to edit | preferences and in the ‘Terminal command:’ section type in:
6. Under ‘Paths’ change the ‘Project directory:’ to
and the ‘IOS/PIX directory:’ to
7. Click on Dynamips tab on the left
For the ‘Executable path:’ type in
8. Change the ‘Working directory:’ to
Click on the Capture tab on the left
9. For the ‘Working directory for capture files:’ change it to
After you have done all that you will be able to Open and Save your GNS3 projects properly and have an efficient setup for GNS3. In order to use the devices in GNS3 you must obtain our own IOS images from Cisco.
1. First we will install Dynagen and Python-Qt4
sudo apt-get install dynagen python-qt4
2. Download GNS3 and extract in /opt
cd /opt
sudo wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/gns-3/GNS3/0.7/GNS3-0.7-
src.tar.bz2?use_mirror=softlayer
sudo tar -xjvf GNS3-0.7-src.tar.bz2 && rm GNS3-0.7-src.tar.bz2
sudo mv GNS3-0.7-src /opt/GNS3
3. Create the following directories:
These directories will be used by GNS3 – such as projects – where your working projects will be stored, cache, temp, IOS images, etc.
cd /opt/GNS3
mkdir Dynamips
mkdir IOS
mkdir Project
mkdir Cache
mkdir tmp
chmod o+rw -R ./Project
chmod o+rw -R ./tmp
4. Download binary of dynamips and make it executable
cd Dynamips
sudo wget http://www.ipflow.utc.fr/dynamips/dynamips-0.2.8-RC2-x86.bin
sudo chmod +x ./dynamips-0.2.8-RC2-x86.bin
You can create a desktop shortcut by right-clicking on the desktop and select “Create Launcher..”, Name it GNS3 and in the command section type in
python "/opt/GNS3/gns3"
Double click to open GNS3 and we will edit the default settings. If you don’t want to use desktop icons you can create a launcher from your programs menu by right clicking on the Main Menu, selecting Edit Menu. Select New Item on the right and you will be presented with the same window where you type in the above. From there you can move the launcher into any menu section of your choice.
5. Go to edit | preferences and in the ‘Terminal command:’ section type in:
gnome-terminal -t %d -e 'telnet %h %p' > /dev/null 2>&1 &
6. Under ‘Paths’ change the ‘Project directory:’ to
/opt/GNS3/Project
and the ‘IOS/PIX directory:’ to
/opt/GNS3/IOS
7. Click on Dynamips tab on the left
For the ‘Executable path:’ type in
/opt/GNS3/Dynamips/dynamips-0.2.8-RC2-x86.bin
8. Change the ‘Working directory:’ to
/opt/GNS3/tmp
Click on the Capture tab on the left
9. For the ‘Working directory for capture files:’ change it to
/opt/GNS3/Project
After you have done all that you will be able to Open and Save your GNS3 projects properly and have an efficient setup for GNS3. In order to use the devices in GNS3 you must obtain our own IOS images from Cisco.
