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- Hello and welcome to this presentation by INE
on Using GNS3 for Network Simulations.
I'm Keith Bogart
and I will be your instructor for this series of videos.
Now, to begin with, GNS3, what is it?
Well, you might not even know what the acronym stands for.
It stands for Graphical Network Simulator
and if you're watching this series of videos,
it's because you already know a little bit
about the potential use of GNS3.
So I'm gonna make some assumptions here
as I start out this video series.
Number one, I'm gonna assume that your primary interest
in using GNS3 is one of two things,
either you're studying for some sort of certification
like a Cisco CCNA or a CCNP
or you just wanna practice the technologies,
maybe you're curious about how BGP works,
you wanna work a little bit more with NAT or Access List
or something like that
and you don't really have real equipment to work with
and you wanna try it out on GNS
which is a perfect platform for that type of thing.
So in this series of videos,
I'm gonna start at the very beginning.
I'm gonna show you where to find the software,
how to download it and then from that point on,
I'm gonna talk a little bit about
okay, why does GNS use Cisco IOS images?
When selecting an IOS image,
what types of things should you consider
as far as which type of IOS image you want to use?
And then we'll talk about how you import the IOS images
into GNS3, how you set up your topologies,
and I'll give you some examples of how to create labs
using GNS3 and all the various things
that go along with that.
So follow along with me as we dive into
the tutorial here on using GNS3.
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