#Connect gns3 to physical network how to
#Connect gns3 to physical network upgrade

#Connect gns3 to physical network how to

So without further-a-do, I would like to share how to integrate GNS3 with EVE-NG and physical equipment. As well as creating this article I will be doing a video demonstration because this type of set-up does have a lot of moving parts as you’ll soon realise in this article. I personally think this is pretty cool and very useful if you want to create complex labs.

So one might ask, “what is the point of this article?” If you’ve not already guessed by the title, I’m going to show you how you can integrate GNS3 with EVE-NG and physical equipment if you have some to hand. I can join both EVE-NG and GNS3 topologies together.I can maintain two separate virtual simulators.I will have the ability to maintain my current GNS3 networks without having to start over.Well…let me answer that before showing you why I’ve decided to use both GNS3 and EVE-NG as my go-to virtual simulators. With that in mind, it’s no wonder why I couldn’t just abandon GNS3 and move over to EVE-NG to start again, so what better way than to just use both of them? I’ve been a GNS3 user for approximately 5 years and within that time i’ve invested a lot of time into creating networks and re-usable environments. Judging by the article so far one would think that i’m favouring EVE-NG but this isn’t the case. EVE-NG gives you the ability to connect to a web UI rather than having to open an application like GNS3.This is a real plus and unlike GNS3, it doesn’t require that you save your configurations externally When devices are configured in EVE-NG you can save the configurations, power-off the devices and later return to them with the same configurations.

#Connect gns3 to physical network upgrade

EVE-NG gives you the ability to upgrade without having to re-install everything again, unfortunately GNS3 isn’t that clever.

It’s rich feature-set and device support closely matches that offered by GNS3 and Virl, making it a strong contender for the go to simulator for creating virtual networks.Ī couple of weeks ago curiosity got the better of me while preparing my plan for the CCIE Security exam so I decided to revisit EVE-NG and see what it could offer me that GNS3 couldn’t. Last year I wrote an article about EVE-NG and how it could be leveraged to create virtual networks.