Saturday, May 7, 2011

Cisco IOU -- Part 4

How to run Cisco IOU on your machine ?

@ Below are the link from where you can download the Cisco IOU .
@ Install the VMware 
@ Create machine & allocate at least 2GB Ram.( Don't install any OS in that )
@ From below link you will get ISO image for Cisco IOU & boot that machine with this image.
@ You will see that machine will start with Linux OS 
@ Then you will get ROOT prompt & then type "ls" command to view file in root directory.
@ To start TS1 or TS2 topology you can type blow command : 

#TS1
TS1#one  ====> " Type one to start the topology"
#TS2
TS2#two   ====> " Type two to start the topology"

Type "off" to turn off the routers.


Please ignore thet below error : 

Waitting on port 2030
Process Id For child is 1681,parent is 1679
UNIX ERR:tcgetattr:Invalid argument

You can download the Cisco IOU from below links with different topology : 

1] Cisco IOU LiveCD v1  ===> 6 Routers  

2] Cisco IOU CCIE v4 TS 1 & 2 Rack LiveCD v2.0 == > Used for Troubleshooting in CCIE R&S Lab

In v2.0 you can have two topology i.e. TS1 & TS2 .
TS1 : This is troubleshooting ready topology that used in CCIE R&S Lab exam.
TS2 : This is troubleshooting ready topology that used in CCIE R&S Lab exam.

Below are the topology diagram for TS1 & TS2

TS 1 Topology : 25+ routers 


TS 2 Topology : 25+ routers




Note : If you are not able to start all router then increase the RAM.

1 comment:

  1. Hi,

    can you tell me how I can restart a particular router? Two routers crashed and I don't want to restart the whole VM.

    This is the error:
    *May 31 13:33:44.282: %SYS-2-MALLOCFAIL: Memory allocation of 4252 bytes failed from 0xA70A488, alignment 8
    Pool: Processor Free: 303828 Cause: Memory fragmentation
    Alternate Pool: None Free: 0 Cause: No Alternate pool
    -Process= "OSPF-1 Hello", ipl= 0, pid= 88, -Traceback= 0xA703FD3z 0xA6FD568z 0xA702F66z 0xA70A488z 0xA70AF83z 0x9E095F0z 0x9E09377z 0x9E0891Dz 0x9DFFF48z 0x9DFED6Az 0x9DE38ECz 0x9DE3175z



    How can I edit the NETMAP file?

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