How to use Cisco 7200 Simulator
by admin on Apr.17, 2009, under Cisco CCNA Study
Cisco 7200 Simulator is only a software for simulate router. Acutally the cisco emulator cannot replace a real router,but you should be able to get a performance of about 1 kpps, to be compared to the 100 kpps delivered by a NPE-100 (the oldest NPE model). So, it is simply a complementary tool to real labs for administrators of Cisco networks or people wanting to pass the ccna exams.
There are some measures how to boot quickly the cisco 7200 simulator, the preferred method is to decompress the IOS image with the “unzip” utility. It avoids to run the self-decompressing process in the emulator.
chris@portchris2:~/dynamips-0.2.5$ ./dynamips image.bin -t npe-400 -p 1:PA-A1 -p 2:PA-8T -p 3:PA-4E -p 4:PA-POS-OC3 -p 6:PA-FE-TX
Cisco 7200 Simulation Platform (version 0.2.5-x86)
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IOS image file: image.bin
CPU0: carved JIT exec zone of 64 Mb into 2048 pages of 32 Kb.
NVRAM is empty, setting config register to 0×2142
C7200 instance ‘default’ (id 0):
VM Status : 0
RAM size : 256 Mb
IOMEM size : 0 Mb
NVRAM size : 128 Kb
NPE model : npe-400
Midplane : vxr
IOS image : image.bin
Loading ELF file ‘image.bin’…
ELF entry point: 0×80008000
C7200 ‘default’: starting simulation (CPU0 PC=0xffffffffbfc00000), JIT enabled.
ROMMON emulation microcode.
Launching IOS image at 0×80008000…
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Cisco 7206VXR (NPE400) processor (revision A) with 245760K/16384K bytes of memory.
Processor board ID 4294967295
R7000 CPU at 150MHz, Implementation 39, Rev 2.1, 256KB L2, 512KB L3 Cache
6 slot VXR midplane, Version 2.1
Last reset from power-on
PCI bus mb0_mb1 (Slots 0, 1, 3 and 5) has a capacity of 600 bandwidth points.
Current configuration on bus mb0_mb1 has a total of 540 bandwidth points.
This configuration is within the PCI bus capacity and is supported.
PCI bus mb2 (Slots 2, 4, 6) has a capacity of 600 bandwidth points.
Current configuration on bus mb2 has a total of 500 bandwidth points
This configuration is within the PCI bus capacity and is supported.
Please refer to the following document “Cisco 7200 Series Port Adaptor
Hardware Configuration Guidelines” on Cisco.com
for c7200 bandwidth points oversubscription and usage guidelines.
4 Ethernet interfaces
2 FastEthernet interfaces
8 Serial interfaces
1 ATM interface
1 Packet over SONET interface
125K bytes of NVRAM.
Installed image archive
65536K bytes of ATA PCMCIA card at slot 0 (Sector size 512 bytes).
8192K bytes of Flash internal SIMM (Sector size 256K).
April 20th, 2009 on 11:50 pm
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