I am going to step away from IOU for a moment and head back to GNS3. In this post we are going to look at running a couple of ASAs within GNS3.
You will need:
- asa842-initrd.gz
- asa842-vmlinuz
- GNS3
- Qemu (latest)
Download the latest GNS3 and Qemu install files from http://www.gns3.net/download/ and from http://www.gns3.net/qemu/.
Install as you normally would and make sure that the latest Qemu is installed by unzipping the Qemu package, then from terminal CD through to the folder and install it using the command "./Qinstall".
In GNS properties set the Qemu paths as instructed in the readme:
Click on the test button at the bottom to make sure that everything is working.
Still in the preferences window head over to the ASA tab under the Qemu option.
The settings we are using here are:
And the ASA specific settings are:
Lastly, save your settings
Start up a new GNS3 project and drag a couple of ASAs onto the workspace and connect them up:
From here we can even use ASDM to manage our ASAs, which I'll probably cover later on.