Comments on: Voice Lab – Branch1 and Branch2 Virtual Machine

By: TongLe

TongLe — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:21:30 +0000

Hi Josh and everyone!

I am following the video and ran ‘vmware-config.pl’ and got the error msg:

…..
Virtual ethernet fail (to stop)

Any sugession?

Thanks a lot!

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:36:16 +0000

Sami,

No Problem.

I am really sorry. I have not had time to put together a video for the PSTN router.

The PSTN router is basically an ip2ip gateway. It will share a common network with the HQ, BR1 and BR2 routers. It will have a dialplan for NANP dialing between the branches. I have also been testing a SIP trunk to an outside carrier to give a more realistic lab.

Josh

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:32:23 +0000

Paul,

Thanks for sharing this information!

Josh

By: Sami

Sami — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 02:33:58 +0000

Hi Josh, thanks for putting this up together. I have a question, looking at your topology it seems like all the 3 routers are connecting (via fastethernet) to the PSTN router’s etherswitch module. Could you please shed some light on how to config those ports and vlan config on the pstn router? The reason I asked this is coz on the HQ and branch routers we have a fastethernet that we can assign ip to, however using switchmodule it is all layer2. Any help in this regards is appreciated.
thanks.
Sami.

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 14:02:16 +0000

If u are using MacOS the best way to connect BR1 and BR2 to the Win XP host is to use VirtualBox instead of VMware Fusion. Adding additional Interfaces under VMWare Fusion is not that easy. vmware-config.pl also exists under VMWare Fusion but not with the capability to add new devices. One approach to overcome this issue can be found here http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-8013.
To make tap1 and tap2 avaible in VirtualBox we can use the following commands:
VBoxManage modifyvm “Win XP” -nic1 hostif -hostifdev1 “tap1: ethernet”
VBoxManage modifyvm “Win XP” -nic2 hostif -hostifdev2 “tap2: ethernet”
So no bridging is necessary.

Paul

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 03:30:34 +0000

Skilly,

You need to configure exceptions for icmp traffic in the windows firewall or disable the windows firewall.

Josh

By: skilly

skilly — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:50:20 +0000

I am using winxp i could ping from the xp to the router in gns3 but not the other way. can u help me out plz?

By: James Filk

James Filk — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 03:51:01 +0000

Thanks James for you answer. I will be waiting for that tutorial……

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 03:58:37 +0000

James,

I have been working on a tutorial for this recently. Hopefully I can get it all together very soon.

Josh

By: James Filk

James Filk — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:43:58 +0000

Do you have a tutorial that shows how to connect the physical 2611XM ROUTER to the lab.

There is a way to connect a real switch to the lab too?

Thanks