One drama with Windows (32 Bit) is it can only recognise 3GB RAM. This is ok for most setups, but you may find if you have a whole IE/IPExpert/Narbik etc topology with 10 or so routers running you may find you would run out of RAM, especially when the OS function might occupy quite a bit of it.

You might have a bit of luck running an Ubuntu partition on your Windows box to run Dynamips/GNS3 from. I am not big on Linux and I found Ubuntu easy to install, and I could get GNS3 running with my own designed Narbik topology in a few hours. If you already have a .net from elsewhere it should be even easier.

I’m not bagging Windows here… Not at all. My philosphy is “use whats best for you and dont stress too much. It’s only a computer” On the same token, I found it much easier to get Dynamips working on Ubuntu than what I did on OSX which is my preferred system.

The dynamips forums http://7200emu.hacki.at/index.php are a good resource. There are some people there talking about their fun and games with their various OSes. There are some legendary video tutorials at http://www.blindhog.net I had my Linux box sitting next my main PC and all I had to do was click on what the guy in the video was doing at the same time and it was all up and running in nothing flat.

I hope I’m not dribbling too much and I hope this helps you out a bit.

Cheers,
Matt

I am planning to use dynamips going forward but I only have one computer(windows machine) and there are applications there that I need for various purposes.

What in your opinion makes the windows/dynamips combo so problematic?