Vlan-tagging in Workstation/Player

Option 1, dynamips can emulate a cisco device to handle vlan tags.

 

 

Go to these links for more information:

 

graphical network simulator - http://www.gns3.net/

 

dynamips - http://www.ipflow.utc.fr/index.php/Cisco_7200_Simulator

 

dynagen - http://www.dynagen.org/

 

 

Important notice: you have to provide your own Cisco IOS to use with GNS3.

 

 

Option 2, explore Vyatta Click here

 

These assume vmware workstation will pass the vlan tags from the guest, do you know this to be the case? BTW, big fan of gns3, recommend it all the time.

vmware workstation will just pass the vlan tags from the guest. I dont think vmware workstation/player support vlan tags but I believe there are more VM images or tools out there that can handle vlan tags within vmware workstation/player.

 

 

CMIIW ...

that's good to know. I had trouble finding any documentation on that.

Just to confirm that this works great in VMware workstation. It'll be in a tech tip later this week, but here's what I have configured on LTM VE and on a Vyatta Open Networking virtual appliance. I should note that the LTM VE configuration is performed in tmsh, and the Vyatta configuration is done logged into the appliance as vyatta/vyatta.

 

 

Would i be right in saying VMWare would just pass as a dumb pipe. So if i have PFSense on the other side configured for dot1q, then that would work fine too?

Steve, you are right ...