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Re: Nexus emulation? Anyone?


From: Tim Stevenson <tstevens () cisco com>
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:03:09 -0800

You couldn't use Titanium to judge/discuss the nexus family as a whole either. Aside from 1KV, all the nexus products use ASIC hardware specific to that platform/linecard and no NXOS software emulator exists that mimics those behaviors.

2 cents,
Tim

At 09:34 AM 12/20/2011, Luan Nguyen gushed:

You can't use the software switch Nexus 1000V to judge/discuss the Nexus
family products N7K, N5K...etc as a whole?

Check out this discussion
<https://supportforums.cisco.com/thread/2054884>https://supportforums.cisco.com/thread/2054884

Titanium as they call the NX-OS simulator is not available to the public
though...

-Luan

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 12:08 PM, -Hammer- <bhmccie () gmail com> wrote:

> Bah. Look like I need more of an education on Nexus in general. Thanks for
> the easy pointer.
>
>
> -Hammer-
>
> "I was a normal American nerd"
> -Jack Herer
>
>
>
> On 12/20/2011 11:02 AM, Nick Hilliard wrote:
>
>> On 20/12/2011 13:55, -Hammer- wrote:
>>
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>>> I know we can't throw NX code on Dynamips but I figured I would ask the
>>> group anyway. We are starting to discuss Nexus platform options and I can
>>> only get so much from demo depot before our AM gets whiny. Is anyone
>>> currently emulating Nexus on anything that is open to the public?
>>>
>>>
>> nexus1k?
>>
>> Nick
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>




Tim Stevenson, tstevens () cisco com
Routing & Switching CCIE #5561
Distinguished Technical Marketing Engineer, Cisco Nexus 7000
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