Normally these are paid ($$) commercial products, but SOECS has free licenses for Pacific students.ĭo not use the stripped-down free VMware Player. Install VMware Fusion (Mac) or VMware Workstation (Windows). įor your reference, detailed installation document for all platforms is available on the GNS3 website, as the process does vary somewhat between platforms: GNS3 allows you to run a small topology consisting of only a few devices on your laptop, to those that have many devices hosted on multiple servers or even hosted in the cloud.
GNS3 is used by network engineers to emulate, configure, test and troubleshoot virtual and real networks.
