Dynamips – emulate Cisco routers

Dynamips is an emulator computer program that was written to emulate Cisco routers.

It emulates the hardware of the Cisco series routing platforms by directly booting an actual Cisco IOS software image into the emulator. Dynamips emulates Cisco platforms 1700, 2600, 2691, 3600, 3725, 3745, and 7200.

GNS3 is based on Dynamips and Dynagen (a text-based front-end for Dynamips) to create a complete virtual Cisco network, adding many additional features and most importantly making it easy to create, change and save your network topologies.

Dynamips is not maintained. But GNS3 has released an unofficial version of Dynamips that brings many improvements.

This is free and open source software.

Key Features

• Test and experiment with features of Cisco IOS.
• Check configurations that are to be deployed to physical routers.
• Training platform.
• Cross-platform support – runs under Linux, FreeBSD, macOS, and Windows.

Website: github.com/GNS3/dynamips
Support:
Developer: Christophe Fillot (original developer), GNS3
License: GNU General Public License v2.0

Dynamips is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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