Dynamips on Ubuntu 8.04 64 bit (Toshiba A300/U01)

Finally I got my hands on Dynamips. I decided to run it on Ubuntu 8.04 64bit. After installing Ubuntu 64bit on my Toshiba A300/U01, I ran into a couple of problems with my RealTek network card not being detected correctly. However this issue had already been solved and I was able to fix it using the following link.

http://www.jamesonwilliams.com/hardy-r8168.htm

After getting my network card to work, I installed Dynamips. Below is the process. I was able to get a lot of details from regarding this from ( http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=5282100)

1) Create a directory for Dynamips

sudo mkdir /opt/dynamips

2) Change to the directory

cd /opt/dynamips

3) Goto dynagen website and download the latest version. At the time of writing this, the latest realease was "dynagen 0.11.0"

4) Copy the location of the file. For instance, in Firefox , right-click the link and select copy link location.

5) Download dynagen using wget (paste the copied link of the dynagen here)
sudo wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/dyna-gen/dynagen-0.11.0.tar.gz?modtime=1208688475&big_mirror=0

6)Extract the tar ball
tar -xvzf dynagen-0.11.0.tar.gz


7) Goto the directory

cd /opt/dynamips/dynagen-0.11.0

8) The README.txt file in this directory gives you the version of Dynamips required.

vi README.txt


The highlighted section above tells us to use atleast version 0.2.8-RC1 or higher of Dynamips.

9) Goto Dynamips blog and wget the amd64 (64bit version)

http://www.ipflow.utc.fr/blog/

Change back to /opt/dynamips directory

cd /opt/dynamips

sudo wget http://www.ipflow.utc.fr/dynamips/dynamips-0.2.8-RC2-amd64.bin

Note: Above file is the 64bit version of dynamips, since I am running it on Ubuntu 8.04 64bit

9) Change the permission of the downloaded file

sudo chmod 755 dynamips-0.2.8-RC2-amd64.bin

10) Create symbolic links for dynamips and dynagen

cd /usr/bin
sudo ln -s /opt/dynamips/dynamips-0.2.8-RC2-amd64.bin dynamips
sudo ln -s /opt/dynamips/dynagen-0.11.0/dynagen dynaged

12) Create a directory for your IOS images
cd /opt/dynamips sudo mkdir images

13) Download the IOS images and place it in /opt/dynamips/images directory
All ready to run DYNAMIPS!!!

1) Navigate to

cd /opt/dynamips/dynagen-0.11.0/sample_labs/simple1

2) Edit simple1.net file

sudo gedit simple1.net

Specify the correct path of your images, in this case /opt/dynamips/images/XXXXXX.bin.
Also change RAM size as required by the IOS.


Save and Exit.


3) Run the Dynamips process

sudo dynamips -H 7200 &

4) Use dynagen to load simple1.net file

sudo dynagen simple1.net 5) At => prompt type ? for a list of options. List command will show the devices available as configured in the .net file.

6) Telnet to a device.
Telnet R1

Note: You can also use your favorite programs such putty and telnet to localhost:2000 etc

In the next section, I'll discuss how to configure idlepc values so that your CPU is not on 100%, when you load several devices in your lab.