Bob George wrote:

> Raymond Cantwell wrote:
>
>> I was wondering if anybody new where i could get a Cisco router 
>> simulator that ran under Linux. I have one for my wifes M$ box but, 
>> need one for my linux box so i can use it outside of the house. 
>
>
> I'm not sure about simulators, but you can make your Linux box into a 
> live router using Zebra. Zebra uses a very Cisco-like interface. Me 
> and some pals hooked up our home systems via Zebra to create the 
> OpenWISP (Worldwide Internet Simulation Project) -- a grandiose name 
> for our little distributed routing lab. I had my Linux box and five 
> routers, another guy had a Cisco router and another only a Linux box. 
> We were able to set up some sophisticated BGP routing scenarios that 
> helped me ace that portion of the CCNP exams.
>
> If you have a handful of Linux boxen, or even VMware, Zebra can help 
> add complexity to your routing scenarios. What's more, it's the "real 
> thing", so you wind up with more of an idea of the "real world" than 
> with many simulators. BGP wasn't really interesting until we had 7 or 
> 8 routers and a few ASen going. You can easily miss the finer points 
> of route redistribution with only 2 or 3 routers.
>
> I mentioned my free router pod (http://lab.ttlexceeded.com:8201) in a 
> separate message to Derek in this thread.
>
> - Bob
>
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Bob thank you the lab will be very helpfull. You rock man.
Ray