3640 Routers With NM-16ESW Used AS Switches In Dynamips Switching Labs

It is a well known fact that the switches in Dynamips and GNS3 do not have the capability of supporting
complex switching labs, but all is not lost. High level switching can be accomplished by using a Cisco 3640 running c3640-jk9s-mz.124-16.bin IOS
with an NM-16ESW installed in slot 1 as the high level switches.
The Cisco NM-16ESW is a 16 port high density voice network module that provides layer 2 switching. It can be installed in the 2600, 3600 and 3700
series routers, and supports 10/100 on each of it 16 ports.
This configuration can Support most of the high level switch functions need to complete the CCNA, CCNP and most of the CCIE lab
scenarios. The following is a list of labs you can and cannot practice.
Labs that can be completed:

• STP


• PVST


• VLANS


• VTP


• SVI


• Etherchannel, both Layer2 and Layer3


• Intervlan Routing using Router on Stick or SVI.


• Private VLANs

• RSTP,MST (Rapid spanningTree and Multiple spanning Tree)


• VLAN ACLS, DHCP Snooping


• Dynamic Etherchannelling using PaGP and LACP


• Dynamic Trunk Negotiation using DTP


• Port Security, Sticky Secure Mac Addresses.


• Dot1x based Authentication

• Router>ena


• Router#config t


• Router(config)#hostname SW1


• SW1(config)#int vlan 1


• SW1(config-if)#ip address 172.16.1.141 255.255.0.0


• SW1(config-if)#no shut


• SW1(config-if)#exit


• SW1(config)#exit


• SW1# copy run start

• Router>ena


• Router#config t


• Router(config)#hostname SW1


• SW1(config)#int vlan 1


• SW1(config-if)#ip address 172.16.1.141 255.255.0.0


• SW1(config-if)#no shut


• SW1(config-if)#exit


• SW1(config)#exit


• SW1#vlan database


• SW1#(vlan)#Vlan 141 name Vlan-141


• SW1#(vlan)#Vlan 141 name Vlan-41


• SW1#(vlan)#Vlan 141 name Vlan-43


• SW1#(vlan)#exit


• SW1# copy run start

• Router>ena


• Router#config t


• Router(config)#hostname SW1


• SW1(config)#int vlan 1


• SW1(config-if)#ip address 172.16.1.141 255.255.0.0


• SW1(config-if)#no shut


• SW1(config-if)#exit


• SW1(config)#exit


• SW1#vlan database


• SW1#(vlan)#VTP domain SW-LAB


• SW1#(vlan)#exit


• SW1#config t


• SW1(config)#int fa 0/15


• SW1(config-if)#switchport mode trunk


• SW1(config-if)#switchport trunk encap dot1q


• SW1(config)#int fa 0/14


• SW1(config-if)#switchport mode trunk


• SW1(config-if)#switchport trunk encap dot1q


• SW1(config-if)#exit


• SW1(config)#exit


• SW1# copy run start

• Router>ena


• Router#config t


• Router(config)#hostname SW1


• SW1(config)#int vlan 1


• SW1(config-if)#ip address 172.16.1.141 255.255.0.0


• SW1(config-if)#no shut


• SW1(config-if)#int fa 0/10


• SW1(config-if)#channel group 1


• SW1(config-if)#int fa 0/11


• SW1(config-if)#channel group 1


• SW1(config-if)#int fa 0/12


• SW1(config-if)#channel group 1


• SW1(config-if)#int fa 0/13


• SW1(config-if)#channel group 1


• SW1(config-if)#exit


• SW1(config)#exit


• SW1# copy run start

• Router>ena


• Router#config t


• Router(config)#hostname SW1


• SW1(config)#int vlan 1


• SW1(config-if)#ip address 172.16.1.141 255.255.0.0


• SW1(config-if)#no shut


• SW1(config-f)#exit


• SW1(config)#spanning-tree vlan 41


• SW1(config)#exit


• SW1# copy run start

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