Hello,
I need assistance of someone very familiar with gns3 to assist me with some issues I am having on gns3;
(1) I don't know how to do telnet in gns3
(2) I want to add pcs to the interfaces of switches on my network to do pings and other config but I am stuck
(3) I need to add internet to my design but I cant .
I will appreciate someone with better understanding of gns3 to kindly put me through.
Cheers

That's a lot and is probably beyond the scope of a single post.



I'm assuming you're running Windows. Most of this applies to other OSs though.

You can console into a device by right clicking on the device and then right-clicking the console option. The all-in-one install of GNS3 comes with Putty default and will open a CLI to the console port of the device (You can see port by hovering your mouse pointer over the device).

Telnetting from a remote device is a slightly more complex matter. You can telnet from router to router. Otherwise, you need to learn how to setup a virtual pc and add it to your topolog. VMWare Player and VirtualBox are two widely used and free Virtual Machine programs.



http://www.gns3.net/documentation/gns3/ ... opologies/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--AhDDHSFpU



http://www.gns3.net/documentation/gns3/ ... -networks/

One caveat, this is just 1/2 of how to connect your topo to an external network. You'll have to know to configure NAT on the external facing router as well as how to set default routes.

You might also get some good tips from the free chapter of my GNS3 Network Simulation Guide (Click on [Free Sample]). Or Amazon


Disclaimer: I am the author of the GNS3 Network Simulation Guide

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