

a very good reason that GNS3 does not come with ready-shipped iourc files.

After downloading run script as follow (probably you will need to install python3 firstly):.You have to open your GNS3 VM shell and download IOU licence keygen: GNS3 2.1.3 on Ubuntu 16.04 It seems if the checkbox 'Check for a valid IOU license key' is selected and the iourc file cannot be found or if a problem occurs with the generated iourc file then GNS3 will not start making it challenging/im.Short instruction how to generate and install licence: No wonder, there is no licence configured for IOS on UNIX: IOS on UNIX licence Now you have added this device to your topology and want to start it, but you will get licence error: Add the following text to /.iourc: license eve-ng 972f30267ef51616 Now, we will create license for IOU/IOL images. So you found some image and installed it in GNS3: IOU Device in GNS3 Cisco IOU License Generator - Kal 2011, python port of 2006 C version Modified to work with python3 by cd 2014 hostid007f0101, hostnameeve-ng, ioukey7f0343. Here is about how to install license in GNS3 to make IOU image working. How and where to find such images is out of scope in this topic. You can find in internet a lot of IOU images and emulate Cisco Switch in GNS3 (L2 and 元). What is Cisco IOU? Shortly: It is a Cisco IOS running on UNIX/LINUX platform.Īctually it was intended for Cisco internal employees for tests and experiments for new features in Cisco IOS.
