Aki, Most of the guys are right, there are simulators for this sort of thing all over the place. What we could maybe work on is actual hardware community lab. Not necessarily cisco, guys could for instance pledge/donate whatever they can get and we put up the lab. A couple of old 2600/6500's etc forgotten in a closet by established ISP's would go along way. Most of them don't have policies to dispose off old equipment but Im sure through such a forum we can get lots of gear to work with. rackspace/power, session management and other considerations would also have to be made. The equipment could be servers, routers, switches etc. We can work on access using the web interface integrated to whatever authentication/logging etc service as you mentioned. For simulators the best cisco one I have personally used for very large scale simulations (more than 6 routers) is dynamips (http://www.dynagen.org/tutorial.htm). Apart from teh wireless track, everything else can be pretty much simulated on this. CCIE candidates use this all the time. google dynamips/dynagen. You could technically get a web interface and offer it up as a simulator if you want. Juniper has an excellent one called olive : http://juniper.cluepon.net/index.php/Olive again I know a couple of juniper certified guys that only used this simulator. Now should you feel that you need to mess around with low level stuff. check our openflow (http://www.openflowswitch.org). http://third-world-networker.blogspot.com/2010/11/openflow-why-its-exciting-... For GSM stuff: check out openbsc and openbts. If you want to go abit further check out osmocombb. I personally have used most of them and can probably answer a few questions if you need help. Please note that you would need specific hardware to make some of the simulators for gsm work. openggsn (this was dormant but I see guys are reworking the code) and opensgsn are perfect if you want to understand how mobile data (gsm) works. HTH. Gitau On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi@gmail.com> wrote:
Aki, we are trying to understand what you are up to exactly , and the value to be derived from this other than a kenyan flag on the product. _______________________________________________ Skunkworks mailing list Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks ------------ Skunkworks Rules http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94 ------------ Other services @ http://my.co.ke
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