Robert5205 wrote: If your goal is to run GNS3, then you need to get the IOS images in an appropriate way. But, if you're trying to work with a lab setup, consider getting the actual physical gear. There are a lot of switches, routers, and firewalls out there that, although not the latest, are still quite functional. And they're available inexpensively or even free.
New to GNS3 and dont know where can I download. Where can I download the Cisco IOS for. GNS for testing then you just download the ios image from the real. GNS3 WorkBench 8.6 Self-Serve Installation Instructions. Images for a Cisco IOS routers. ASA mkdir ~/GNS3/Images/Junos To download the Cisco IOS.
Buying used gear is most often technically just as illegal as grabbing the images from some file sharing site because the licenses are not transferable. That said, I carefully reviewed the license for the software that makes my car work and it's not transferable either so in some cases buying a used car is just as illegal (technically - no court would ever entertain that you did something illegal with regard to software licensing in buying a used car). I expect the automobile manufacturer's lawyer wasn't a software licensing specialist and used a lot of boiler plate text from somewhere else without actually realizing the real implications.
Of course there are dozens of Cisco re-sellers that sell used gear and those that do it the official Cisco way (sending the equipment back to Cisco for official re-licensing and charging again for the licensing) are obviously at a serious pricing disadvantage. I don't know of any cases of Cisco taking legal action to enforce their intellectual property rights against a re-seller and I'd be very surprised if they took exception to someone using their software in a 'virtual' GNS3 environment. If the software images do come from anywhere other than the official Cisco software repository (including preinstalled on used gear) you really need to check the MD5 signature against the official Cisco version. There have been reports of compromised IOS images making the rounds.
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I wonder what does harm and what does good from Cisco's perspective. Does Cisco come down hard on the little guy trying to get his CCNA? That little guy is going to pay for his CCNA (and maybe a CCNP) and chances are he'll be drinking at least some of the Cisco kool-aid for the rest of his networking life. I'll bet Cisco bank on getting more sales from 'on-boarding' Cisco acolytes than they would if they were seen to be harsh with people who, at the end of the day are likely to recommend and use MORE Cisco kit and not less. The same goes for the 'un-official' re-sellers.
At the end of the day if a business (or whatever) buys a bit of Cisco gear, who is going to be making money? Chances are Cisco are in for a 'windfall' somewhere along the line whether it's a licence/feature upgrade, a module or WIC purchase or (now that the business has taken the Cisco plunge) they buy new gear from an actual Cisco re-seller with all the bells and whistles. And lets be clear, I do not condone illegal file sharing of any kind but come on, lets elevate the thinking beyond the actual small print and live in the real world. I firmly believe Cisco turns a blind eye to a lot of this 'grey market' activity in pursuit of the greater (for them) good.
Doesn't do us Cisco engineers who need lab gear any harm either. All in all I think if Cisco were to start firing law suits across the globe to protect their IOS's (especially 'old' IOS's) would do them a great deal of harm indeed. 'Cisco even gives free ios updates you just have to write a email to tac with a show ver, then show them the vulnerability your facing and they want serial too to make Sure it's not stolen.
Cisco has to update their equipment if there is a vulnerability it says so on their site. I have done it many times!' Has anyone else been brave and done the above? Every single person even remotely resembling a networking professional that works with Cisco equipment has always said that your gray market switches and routers should never talk to the internet or they will 'phone home' and really bad things will happen. Like Loretta Lynch, Kamala Harris or Preet Bharara showing up at your door with an arrest warrant bad.
Or Papa John himself showing up in that silly Domino's DXP delivery car with a Little Caesar's cheesy crust pizza bad. Text Every single person even remotely resembling a networking professional that works with Cisco equipment has always said that your gray market switches and routers should never talk to the internet or they will 'phone home' and really bad things will happen.
There must be thousands of companies offering Cisco training that have classrooms chock full of grey market gear. I've had a 'grey market' lab of about 20 bits of Cisco gear for over 10 years and it's ALL been 'on the internet' continuously for about 5 years. I am a Cisco CCNP so I do resemble a network engineer and indeed that is my job title. Nothing bad has ever happened to me (well not at Cisco's hands at least.).
And as I said earlier, I think Cisco are good deal more pragmatic and practical about this than the amateur lawyers among us. That said, recent changes to IOS and feature licencing mean it may be harder to copy an IOS images whilst retaining all the features. And the new Universal IOS images definitely have the capability to call home. I don't think anything prior to 15.x has that capability with the exception of the ASA and I don't recall seeing any data leaving my network destined for Cisco that originated from any of my gear. Can't say the same for my LG TV though.
They do call home with all sorts of 'interesting' information =:-o. Thankfully that was easy to block. Tbh, I was always skeptical of this school of thought and so I connected my equipment anyway (without incident I may add). Recently though, I had the bright idea to create some tunnels external to my network (for learning purposes) that would require I go through my ISP to get to the other end of a configured tunnel.
While I could replicate that internally, I wanted to do things the hard and unnecessary way. While coaxing my friend into joining my madness. At that point, I thought I would research for a minute to see what other people were saying about it and that is how I found this post (unsurprisingly) at Spiceworks.
Thanks for the reply and sarcastic wit (of which I am a great fan).:-) Hopefully, this will dispel the myth for more people down the line when they find this thread.. I have a bunch of tunnels from my home to various sites I support for work. I use IPSEC over GRE because that keeps the communication secure, even from the ISP. To say nothing of the fact that for site to site communication across the public internet traffic should be encrypted as it is best practice. And even if the ISP could read my traffic (if I were using GRE without IPSEC the traffic would be in plain text) they aren't monitoring activity looking for and reporting Cisco licencing or copyright 'issues'. If they're making it difficult, yet not impossible, for new network professionals to enter the industry, then the argument could be made that it's expected to jump through hoops and/or cheat to gain a foot in the door (so to speak).
How do most people start off learning about CISCO? By paying exorbitant amounts of money for their training? Yes, there are ways where one's company will pay for training. However, that assumes that the person has already gotten the training they need to land a job in the field. Once again, whether it's 'gray market' resellers or any other purveyors of IP-infringing tactics/methods, most people start off by somehow being directly or indirectly in violation of the license(s). Therefore, why would this legacy company, which had been somewhat of a defacto standard in the industry, not facilitate that point of entry for people interested enough to learn about their products? There is plenty of room to make additional profits even through expanded training.
Sorry about the rant; I just find it odd, comical even, to see the same stories and experiences being discussed for years(decades?); and everyone is just looking away as if everything is perfectly fine 'as long as I got mine.' In any case, for those who may come across this post while searching how to get started with GNS3, take a look at QUOTEGNS3 has allowed network engineers to virtualize real hardware devices for over 10 years. Originally only emulating Cisco devices using software called Dynamips, GNS3 has now evolved and supports many devices from multiple network vendors including Cisco virtual switches, Cisco ASAs, Brocade vRouters, Cumulus Linux switches, Docker instances, HPE VSRs, multiple Linux appliances and many others. Go here to see a list of appliances available: /QUOTE. Kbr0125 wrote: Buying used gear is in no way breaking the law.
Please google court case agaisnt cisco. Grey market gear is not illigal you just won't get support and it's frowned apon. My Cisco sales rep. Definitely believes (or leads me to believe that he believes) that buying used gear is illegal because the license is not transferable. Obviously he has his own agenda which has to be taken into consideration. He clearly told me that the only way to purchase and use, used gear legally was to get it from Cisco as they are the only ones legally empowered to grant a right to use their software.
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Of course everyone is buying and selling used gear and if Cisco does have the right to take legal action and did so they would just be perceived as a bully.