![]() Click the Browse button in the Symbol area and select a symbol for the GNS3 Layer 2 Switch from the window opened and click the OK button to save the settings.ġ1- Finally, you can increase the number of interfaces in the Network section to configure the port number of the Layer 2 Switch on GNS3. Therefore, in order to emulate any Cisco routers or switches, you must first have an existing Cisco IOS software image that is compatible with GNS3. 8- After adding Layer 2 Switch to GNS3, click Finish button.ĩ- To configure the symbol of the Cisco Layer 2 Switch, click on the Switch in the GNS3 / Devices section and click Configure Template.ġ0- Select "Switches" in the Category section of the Layer2 Switch window. In the window that opens, click the New button on the QEMU tab.Ĥ- In the New QEMU VM Template window, type a name for the Cisco Layer 2 Switch and click Next.ĥ- In the next step, if your operating system is 32 Bit or 64 Bit, select the relevant option.Ħ- Set the RAM value for your computer's hardware performance for the Cisco Layer 2 Switch.ħ- In the Disk Image window, click the Browse button to add the L2 IOS image you downloaded to your computer. Now you can run and use Cisco Layer 3 Switch on GNS3!ġ- First download the L2 Switch IOS image to your the computer from the link below.Ģ- Run the GNS3 program after downloading the L2 Switch IOS image (vIOS-L2.vmdk) to your computer.ģ- Click Edit / Preferences to add Layer 2 Switch on GNS3. Perform this operation by clicking the Idle-PC Finder button in the Idle-PC window.ġ0- Wait while calculating the Idle-PC value for Layer 3 Switch.ġ1- After setting the Idle PC value, click the OK button. In the window that opens, click on Dynamips / IOS Routers.Ĥ- Click the New button to add a Cisco Layer 3 Switch in the IOS Router Templates window.ĥ- Select New Image in the IOS Image window and click the Browse button to add the 元 Switch IOS image to your GNS3.Ħ- After adding the Cisco Layer 3 Switch IOS image, select "This is an Etherswitch Router" in the "Name and Platform" window and click the Next button.ħ- Set the RAM value for the Cisco Layer 3 Switch and click on the Next button.Ĩ- Add the NM-16ESW interface for "slot 0" in the Network Adapters window and click on the Next button.ĩ- You need to configure the Idle-PC value for the Layer 3 Switch to function correctly on GNS3. If you want to download Cisco switch IOS or IOU / IOL images. For older images, we use and maintain Dynamips an emulator dedicated to emulate some Cisco hardware. Here is the steps to follow for installing a 元 switch:ġ- First you need to download this 元 switch image from the following link:Ģ- Run the GNS3 program after downloading the 元 Switch IOS image file to your computer.ģ- Click Edit / Preferences to add a Layer 3 Switch on GNS3. GNS3 offers multiple ways to emulate IOS. ![]() I also show you how to add Docker containers to your network.Greetings would like to provide you a way so that you can emulate Cisco switches (L2 as well as 元) and the most important, it's a 100% free solution! Just follow the following steps: ![]() How do you build Cisco networks in GNS3? In this video I show you how to download Cisco IOS images (Cisco VIRL images) to run IOSv and IOSvL2 in your GNS3 topologies. ![]()
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