Re: VLANs in VM

[Robin Wood <robin () digininja org>]

On 16 September 2010 16:32, Carlos Perez <carlos_perez () darkoperator com> wrote:
> righ now I have an old Cisco 3550 for playing with that, best bet would be to get an old cisco, procurve, 3com ..etc 
> from ebay
> each vendor has it own twist on "Standard Protocols"

How is best to tie that into a VM lab? Or do you just mean plug some
physical hardware in to it and go from there? I've got enough machines
kicking around that I could do a physical lab but space, noise and
portability have prevented me from doing it so far.

> On Sep 16, 2010, at 11:27 AM, Robin Wood wrote:
>
> > On 16 September 2010 16:08, Matthew Manor <kingmanor () gmail com> wrote:
> > > Have you tried Vyatta?  It can do most of what Cisco IOS can do but
> > > virtually, including VLANs, and you can certainly run an entire lab of
> > > VMs off of it.
> >
> > I've just had a quick look through it but can't tell if it would help
> > or not. I want to put different machines in my VirtualBox lab onto
> > different VLANs so I can experiment with them. Do you know if their
> > software product would do that?
> >
> > > -Matt Manor
> > >
> > > On 9/16/10, Carlos Perez <carlos_perez () darkoperator com> wrote:
> > > > Do you mean having a switch with 802.1q?
> > > >
> > > > Sent from my iPhone
> > > >
> > > > On Sep 16, 2010, at 5:03 AM, Robin Wood <robin () digininja org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Is there any way to setup a VLAN environment in a virtual environment?
> > > > > They are something I've never had much chance to play with and I'd
> > > > > love to get it labbed up so I can. I know there are virtual systems
> > > > > for running IOS images but don't think I could then hang a bunch of
> > > > > VMs off those machines.
> > > > >
> > > > > Preferably VirtualBox methods but any VM will do.
> > > > >
> > > > > Robin
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