Dynamips on live cd
New Gns3 live cd , based of on slitaz, size 35mb, user gns and no password , or user root with passwd root, download it here
Absolutely new dynamips live cd based on slitaz , size 29.3 mb, user and pass is root download it here
The slitaz package for cpulimit can be downloaded here
The team at gns3-labs have uploaded my iso’s for the the dynamips / dynslax and gns3 version.
so please go ahead and check out this awesome site Gns3-Labs
and click here to download the live cd’s from gns3-labs
In the current iso’s i have included a icon on the desktop named RunThisFirst, just double click on it, it will setup all permissions and symlinks , after doing so run dynamips and dynagen as you normally would, if its the gns3 cd , you can just double click the gns3 icon and gns3 will begin.
to make the usb bootable , just the files from the tar to the usb drive, you should see three folders extracted i.e [BOOT] , slax and boot. yea thats right boot directory is twice. enter the boot directory and double click on the bootinst.bat , and press enter , this command will make your usb drive bootable.
running on the usb is noticeably faster. also if your booting from the cd you have a copy to ram option , if you have lots of ram, try that option.
To begin ill be uploading the usb version by tomm/day after. : USB version is ready download below
to download the iso go here –> cd download
for the usb download go here –> usb download
to record the iso on to a cd this could be helpful or use your favourite cd burning program
boot your system with the slax cd, once the desktop shows up
open a terminal window and type in “python dynalive.py” without the quotations
this just sets the right permissions and creates symlinks in /usr/bin.once you have done that just start dynamips as you normally would.
i.e open a terminal windows and type in dynamips -H 7200
read the following below
*** Important ****
your .net files and images can be anywhere on a permanent drive like your windows harddisk or a usb but your have to change your working directory to somewhere on the slax partition
i have set a directory in the dynalive folder on the desktop, so if you would like just type in the foll. path as your working directory
workingdir = /root/Desktop/dynalive/wkgdir
the above line should be typed in .net file
remember to change your image path ,
to get your correct image path open up system –> storage media
here you can see you hardrives so your first harddrive which might be your c: will have a path of /mnt/sda1 where sda1 stands for your c:/
so if your image is in c:/images on windows then your image path will be
/mnt/sda1/images
in fact in the konqueror ( file manager ) address bar you can see the entire path, just replace /media with /mnt
you can right click on your hard-drive to see the correct sda info.
then after you finish your lab practise, you can copy the contents on to your harddrive.
i used slax because it was small plus had a easy to understand KDE desktop and very clear instructions on how to make your own cd, so you too can make one.
additions made on this normal Slax cd
dynagen
dynamips
python2.5.2 lzm module
wireshark module –> wireshark-1.0.0-i486-1tb
telnet module –> telnet-1.5
cli-ftp module –> cli-ftp-pack
nano module –> nano-2.0.6
slax-get module –> slax-get-0.7.2
john the ripper module –> john-1.7.0.2
nmap module –> nmap-4.60
To make your own live-cd check out http://www.slax.org.
Reason for making this CD
One of my colleagues screwed up his harddisk trying to partition and install ubuntu so that he could run dynamips and dynagen on it for the added performance benefit that linux gives.
to recover the data i ended up using slax ( im usually a archlinux user)
then it struck me that getting a live cd to run dynagen would be pretty safe and easy for normal users.
*** next - gns3 on slax cd/usb — should be ready by next week ****