GNS3 1.0 Alpha 4!

GNS3 1.0 Alpha 4!

13:09:00


GNS3 1.0 Alpha 4 is out today, coming in a week or so before the next bank holiday in the UK. I am sure that the bank holiday releases are just a coincidence, unless the developers are really keen on celebrating the "International Day of Families" (yeah I don't know what it's about either - alternatively it could be released in celebration of Paraguay's Independence Day).

GNS3 1.0 Alpha 4

So anyway, enough about random world wide holiday talk, let's have a look at what's new (and fixed):

Whats new in GNS3 1.0 Alpha 4?

Now we have the following changes:

  • Show Windows interface names in cloud tooltips.
  • Disconnect the server if the version differs from the GUI version.
  • Move cloud code to a builtin module and support for clouds on remote servers.
  • Options to use the default IOU RAM & NVRAM values.
  • Changed the name of default base startup and private configs.
  • Added “All files” filter when looking for an IOU or IOS image in the file broswer.
  • Graceful server shutdown on Windows.
  • Error message that JIT sharing is only supported in Dynamips unstable.
  • New UDP and console port allocation system for IOU. Fixes duplicated port issues.
  • Delete some Dynamips files that are useless to save in projects.
  • Fix: the path to GNS3 server was not saved.
  • Fix: RAM and NVRAM IOU image settings not propagated when creating an IOU device.
  • Fix: bug where IOS nvram/disk files were not kept after closing a topology.
  • Fix: bug that prevented changing any IOU device setting when connected to another node.
  • Fix: duplicated node id issue.
  • Fix: major bug with ghost instance overwriting any second router files (R2).
  • Fix: error when ldd cannot be found.
  • Fix: issues with local base configs for IOS.
Some pretty cool stuff here, especially the third item - "support for clouds on remote servers", this isn't to say that we can have multiple IOU servers sitting out there, it's close, very close, but not there just yet:

Multiple IOU servers in GNS3

So close!

Still no sign of the ability to add text to topologies though. I do miss that.
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Stephen
16 May 2014 at 11:57 delete

Its coming! Thanks for the post!

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Unknown
16 May 2014 at 12:05 delete

lol, Hi Stephen, do you mean the ability to add text or multiple IOU servers? Either way, great work so far!

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Stephen
17 May 2014 at 15:31 delete

GUI Feature changes will happen post launch - main focus will be on the server backend. But lots in the works in terms of what we would like to see.

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Anonymous
18 May 2014 at 14:15 delete

I don't see a way to add ASA to GNS3. Am I missing something?

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Unknown
19 May 2014 at 01:20 delete

Which version of GNS3 are you using? 1.0 doesnt have qemu integration (yet) which is needed for running an ASA. The freely available version does support ASAs - http://www.802101.com/2013/10/running-asa-within-gns3.html

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Anonymous
19 May 2014 at 09:25 delete

Hi Stuart,

I am using 1.0 alpha 4 release. Maybe I am asking the wrong person but do you know when they are panning to release it? :)
1.0 is so smooth that I don't want to install the old version again! :D

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Unknown
19 May 2014 at 10:28 delete

Hi

I don't know it's still alpha so it needs to go to beta first before general release. The sign up page says we get it a year before general release so probably around this time next year for the finished article. It's a complete rewrite from the ground up so will take longer than just tacking things on to the existing release.

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